Running away

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They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea.

Horace

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Topic

Running away Change of scenery

Author

Horace

Source

Epistles 1

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

Latin

Time

20 BC 20s 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 11.

Current Citation

Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 11.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Topic

Running away Facing oneself

Speaker

Jake Barnes

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Topic

Running away Escape

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Babbitt

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 25.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 25.

It doesn't make any difference what city, all cities are alike. That's why I'm out here now.

Easy Rider

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Topic

Cities Running away

Speaker

Stranger on Highway

Actor

Luke Askew

Source

Easy Rider

Medium

Film

Genre

Road movie Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Easy Rider. Directed by Dennis Hopper. Pando Company Inc./Raybert Productions, 1969.