At any rate, thatβs how I started running. Thirty threeβthatβs how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist. β¨ Haruki Murakami (2011). What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, p.47, Random House
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