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• You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

  Van Morrison

  Time, Church Bells, Magic

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• Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.

  Denis Johnson

  Heart, Past, Childhood

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• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

  Mal Peet

  Cousin, Believe, Kissing

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• Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

  Mary Schmich

  Thinking, Past, Fishing

  "The greatest commencement speech ever" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2014.

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• The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Greek, Suffering

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• I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Successful, Thinking, Museums

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• The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Names, Long, Stories

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophy, Real, Thinking

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• I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

  Josh Radnor

  Memories, College, Treasure

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

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• What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and matters—the present moment.

  Richard Rohr

  Faith, Christian, Real

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• For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

  Bret Michaels

  Artist, Want, Solo

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• There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Strong, Passionate

  Albert Camus, Jean Grenier (2003). “Correspondence, 1932-1960”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, School, Doctors

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.196

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• I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

  Rian Johnson

  Ghetto, Thinking, Get Better

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

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• Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Wise, Nature, Memories

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Assuming, Used

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

  Amy Bloom

  Distance, Past, Comfort

  Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.186, Random House

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• There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

  Joan Didion

  Landscape, Homesick, Impulse

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• I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Color, Paris, Midnight

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Talking, Cities

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• When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Hate, Past, I Hate

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

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• That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.

  Girl Talk

  College, Listening, One Day

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• [As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Silence, Mind

  "A Qualified Farewell". Essay by Raymond Chandler (early 1950's), published in "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" edited by Frank MacShane, 1976.

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• While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Enjoy

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• Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, California

  John Steinbeck (2002). “Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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