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• Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

  Robert Morgan

  Distance, Objectivity, Giving

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• Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.

  Agnes Varda

  Memories, Everyday, Special

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

  Doug Larson

  Memories, Ruts, Lanes

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• We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

  George Eliot

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

  Ted Koppel

  Scrapbooking, Easy

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• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  Deborah Tall

  Children, Video, Looks

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.99, Syracuse University Press

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• Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Love, Pain, Thinking

  "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005.

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• It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

  Oliver Sacks

  Kindness, Heart, Adversity

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Eye, Views, Stones

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.316, tredition

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• Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

  Angela Carter

  Vices

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• The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Fun, Bad Relationship, Ends

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• Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Realization, Matter, Longing

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• I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

  Ralph Ellison

  Laughter, Gay, Air

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage

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• Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Lost, Bearable

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

  David Benioff

  Giving, Thanks, Remember

  David Benioff (2005). “When the Nines Roll Over: And Other Stories”, p.73, Penguin

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• If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is.

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II

  Real, Book, Kind

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• There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

  David Guterson

  Romance, Certain, Left

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• I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Ice, Two

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  Florence King

  Memories, Literature, Ephemeral

  "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye". Book by Florence King, 1989.

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• Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Memories, Ironic

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• Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

  Peter Carey

  Pain, Past, Thinking

  "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

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• Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

  George Saunders

  Hey, Remember, Used

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• Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Real, Taken, Eden

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