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"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."
— Martha Graham

tags: dance, dancing, life, movement, present

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"...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... "
— William Morris

tags: -, art, arts, crafts, democracy, movement

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"I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.
(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)
Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited."
— Samuel Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape)

tags: beckett, krapp, life, love, movement, play, relatipnship, silence

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"Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do."
— Sarah Manguso

tags: chairs, infinity, movement, possibility, reality

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"Senator John Stennis:
'The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.'"
— Joe Biden (Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics)

tags: civil, movement, politics, rights

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"Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children... [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future."
— Sandra Meucci

tags: children, movement, politics, youth

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"As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.”"
— Ross Wetzsteon (Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960)

tags: literature, movement

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