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• These fragments I have shored against my ruins

  T. S. Eliot

  Age, Ruins, Aging

  The Waste Land l. 431 (1922)

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• It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Wish, Lost, Shock

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.37, Penguin

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• Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

  Terrence Malick

  Powerful, Feelings

  "Terrence Malick Punched Out A Producer & 10 Other Things We Learned About ‘Badlands’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 3, 2011.

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• But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn’t even true at the time—love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Memories, Powerful

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• In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

  Milan Kundera

  Sunset, Auras, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", 1988.

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• Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

  Jeanne Moreau

  People, Want, Staying

  "Jeanne Moreau: 'Living is risking'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2001.

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• I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

  Callimachus

  Tired, Talking, Sky

  Callimachus, “Heraclitus”

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• I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

  Andy Summers

  Past

  "Andy Summer The Police Interview". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

  Lou Reed

  Nostalgic, Mines

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• I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Daughter, Mother, One Day

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• Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

  Robert Hass

  Past, Suffering, Desire

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

  Peter De Vries

  Past, Used, Used To Be

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 26 July 1964

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• I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

  Walt Disney

  Memories, Future, Past

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• When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, People, Important

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• I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

  Kate Adie

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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• It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

  Bill Vaughan

  Safe, Chance, Nostalgic

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• Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Infinite, Terrible

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• Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

  Paul Getty

  Economy, Speculation, Idle

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• I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

  Mira Nair

  Dream, Useless Things, Feels

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

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• Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

  George Ball

  Liars, Lying, Past

  Newsweek, 1971.

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• A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

  Christopher Lasch

  Past, Important, Suggestions

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, Home, Kind

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• This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

  John Thorn

  Pain, Home, Greek

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• The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, National Parks, Bliss

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

  Angela Carter

  Europe, Names

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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