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We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .


Florence King

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for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nos...
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VIVIAN SOBCHACK True friendship is not convenient when those moments spent together are forgotten.
BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭　ベーゼル) Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.
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MIUCCIA PRADA Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."
JOAN MILLS People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.
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R.A. SALVATORE Nostalgia is the main cause of subjectivity in the world
BENOIT Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
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PETER DE VRIES Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
UNKNOWN Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
GEORGE W. BALL Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
GEORGE WILDMAN BALL I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.
MICHAEL HAGAN My idea is always to avoid nostalgia,
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ZACH DUKE Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
JOHN GREEN Nostalgia was never what it used to be.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS The memories I had with you will never be forgotten, as long as I am alive.
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JULIAN BARNES Once Around the Sun - Nostalgia is a seductive liar
GEORGE WILDMAN BALL Nostalgia is not what it used to be (La nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle etait)
SIMONE SIGNORET There will be a little nostalgia.
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BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence ...
MILAN KUNDERA The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
AMY BLOOM Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
ALICE CHILDRESS That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky...
CALLIMACHUS You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
CHARLES F. KETTERING A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist r...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for...
MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
JACK LONDON Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect
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BILLY JOEL It'll solidify him in western Pennsylvania. He gets to capitalize on the nostalgia for Pittsburgh an...
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SCOTT MACDONALD I have no nostalgia for the location whatsoever. I appreciate what Hilly did. It's about his policy....
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GEORGE STEWART I feel nostalgia for the show in a way, ... I'd always wanted it to be a movie franchise. I never th...
DAVID DUCHOVNY Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories.
JERRY SPINELLI nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for

Weak but detectable interaction betwee...
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LEONARD HORN You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.
SAMANTHA SOTTO Não ter nascido bicho parece ser uma de minhas secretas nostalgias.
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Come the fire-fly,
Come the moon;
Say a prayer for God'...
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown o...
TYLER FLORENCE What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about whic...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone...
FLORENCE BALLARD As a chef, I prefer fish over meat,
TYLER FLORENCE I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as t...
TYLER FLORENCE I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE It was kind of schizophrenic at times because she was still mom. But after a while, in a weird way, ...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN We are just letting everybody in the community know that this is a possibility if they want to see t...
FLORENCE PATERNO They're designing a poster for our advertising push. I thought that was kind of neat that these kids...
FLORENCE PATERNO It's not quite the crowd we had hoped for but everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.
FLORENCE PATERNO We're trying to integrate the two buildings into one cultural arts center.
FLORENCE PATERNO We want people to dress up like a star. But, if they don't want to, come casual.
FLORENCE PATERNO To be honest, I think the only show that's doing OK for them is House . It seems to have grown in te...
FLORENCE NG In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the t...
FLORENCE MUMBA We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the ...
FLORENCE MUMBA Winners win because they try out something.
FLORENCE MUMBA After each fashion show, we will also have a fantasy reception in order to showcase the talents of o...
FLORENCE BELCHER We hope that it will encourage the grooms to come out and take part in the wedding. it will give the...
FLORENCE BELCHER My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with hi...
FLORENCE HENDERSON There's an old Chinese proverb that says the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON