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• Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

  Julio Cortazar

  Eden, Paradise, Utopia

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.210, Everyman's Library

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• What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

  Julian Barnes

  Remember, Ends

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.3, Random House

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• It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

  Karl Lagerfeld

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• The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

  Elie Wiesel

  Secret, Deeper

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.8, Schocken

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• Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

  Stan Kenton

  Funny, Music, Clever

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• Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

  Julio Cortazar

  Eye, Color, Kingdoms

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.480, Pantheon

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• Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.

  Marvin Gaye

  Expression, Mercy, Used

  Song: Mercy, Mercy Me

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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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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Nice, Ideas, Today

  "First draft of Kerouac's Beat bible, 'On the Road,' arrives in San Francisco, the very city it sanctified" by Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. January 18, 2006.

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• Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. ... He was a considerable talent.

  Jim DeRogatis

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Talent

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• Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Racism, Today

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• It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Country, Home, Simple

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Atheism, Age

  Once Around the Sun (1951) 8 Feb.

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• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  Lana Del Rey

  Fashion, Inspiration, Past

  "Lana Del Rey is 'oh so pretty' for 'British Vogue'" by Andi Teran, www.mtv.com. February 2, 2012.

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• People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male

  Jon Hamm

  Powerful, White, People

  "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" by David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

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• Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Memories, Past, Feelings

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

  Will Rogers

  Educational, School, Used

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• Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Rage, Settling

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.210, Penguin

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• I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Negative

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• I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

  Dario Argento

  Phases, Bad Things

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• Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Imperfection, Littles

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• Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Ironic, Narrative

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• They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.

  Leonard Horn

  Moving, Thinking, Cities

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• This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

  Pete Hamill

  Color, Joy, Whimsy

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