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I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

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Sherwood Anderson
Age: 64 †
Born: 1876
Born: September 13
Died: 1941
Died: March 8
Novelist
Writer
Buck Fever
Wanted
Everything
Something
Towards
Running
Away

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Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
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