Famous quotes containing the words distance and/or running:
“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a possessive mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl Ive known named Maude-Ellen has had warts. Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiperjust running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something ... having spent most of my life timorously seeking for subsistence along the coastlines of the world.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (19111979)
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