The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that when a man runs the wrong way, the more active and swift he is the further he will go astray.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Novum Organum.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

-Sillitoe, Alan
  Title of book. Colombian  poet  whose  life  was  marked by  financial reverses, the  death  of  loved  ones,  and  the  loss  of  his  manuscripts  in  a shipwreck.  His  poetry  is  characteristically  melancholy,  and after only ten years of writing he committed suicide.