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Kathleen Norris Quotes: To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
         

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.


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