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“Nearly every American hungers to move.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“love is what moves the world, I’ve always thought.. it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl...” Stephen King, The Stand
“Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“I'm not sure what I'll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
“when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback — it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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