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• I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials . . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Angel, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Balance, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• "The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

  Alice Childress

  Inspirational, Good Day, Old Days

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• I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.

  Robert Hass

  Book, Long, People

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Old Days, Senators

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• I saw a nice interview with Dave Binney recently. He was saying, "Man it was never easy. It's not like 'Oh wow, the good old days.' What, when certain people couldn't vote?" There was more work for musicians in the '40s, '50s, '60s. But I don't think it was ever easy.

  Jon Gordon

  Nice, Men, Thinking

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• Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

  Jay Leno

  Worry, Bombs, Remember

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• A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

  Joseph Campbell

  Old Things, Together Again, Elements

  Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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• In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Today, Bugs, Sticks

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

  Sherry Turkle

  Football, Children, Phones

  "Is Your Computer Also Your Best Friend?". The Chestertown Spy Interview, chestertownspy.org. January 29, 2011.

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• I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Black, Old Days

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• The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.

  Mario Andretti

  Experts, Aids, Needed

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

  Scott MacDonald

  Party, White, Athletic

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• They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really valuable people and will have lots of money from now on and really cool people like Ethan Hawke will be dropping by all the time. But it's a lie. Being a published writer will make them long to be ONLY as mentally ill as they are now. Their current level of obsession and doubt and self-loathing will look like the good old days. Honest.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Believe, Self

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• Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

  Manny Farber

  Guy, Towns, Different

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.91, Library of America

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• I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.

  Joseph Force Crater

  Judging, Tanks, Months

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• You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

  Jay Leno

  Justice, President, Way

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• Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Wow, Old Days

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• When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise he would've dissolved. I had seen Annabeth, and I had a feeling he had too. He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. Hurting Annabeth in battle had shocked him into remembering that promise. It had allowed his mortal conscience to take over again, and defeat Kronos. His weak spot—his Achilles heel—had saved us all

  Rick Riordan

  Hurt, Rivers, Focus

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• I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I’m sick of the whole ‘my gun will solve all’ mentality. (Wulf)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Warrior, Gun

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

  James Fallows

  Party, Ignorance, Hands

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• That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Kings, Adventure

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• How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Winning, Paper

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• The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

  Les Dawson

  Rising, Way, Lasts

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.22, Michael O'Mara Books

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