Nostalgia Quotes - Page 16

• There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.

  John Vanderslice

  People, Feelings, Sentimental

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

  Andre Benjamin

  Cages, Sometimes

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• The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Mother, Flower, Men

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• Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Peace, Believe, Frustration

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Streams of Silver: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.112, Wizards of the Coast

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• We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Terrorism, Slave, Masters

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• Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.

  Tosca Lee

  Beautiful, Afterlife, New Orleans

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• When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Stupid, Past

  "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh". Book by Michael Chabon, 1988.

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

  Peg Bracken

  Smell, Pie, Kitchen

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Evil, Exhausted, Argument

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• We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Family, Past, Ties

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.948, Library of America

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.

  Angela Thirkell

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

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• Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Moving, Sea

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• Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

  Georges Bernanos

  Obsession, Purity, Impurity

  Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.213, U of Nebraska Press

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• I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

  Alberto Manguel

  Giving Up, Memories, Book

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.305, Penguin

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• When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

  Nicole Krauss

  Used, Lost, Pathology

  "Have a heart". Interview With Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  Vince Vaughn

  Film, Preference, Knows

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2013.

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• I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Mean, Sea

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  Gary Ross

  Scary, Generations, Eras

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. October 21, 1998.

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• I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Choices, Able

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.

  Terry Eagleton

  Thinking, Too Much, Sometimes

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• The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Artist

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• I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Artist, Icons, Yesteryear

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

  Jo Brand

  Teenage, Believe, Years

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