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• In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.

  Jonathan Raban

  Cities, Community, Badges

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• I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand, I am sad when I think how I have become increasingly preoccupied with matters other than study.

  Hideki Yukawa

  Writing, Science, Thinking

  Hideki Yukawa (1982). “Tabibito”, p.207, World Scientific

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• Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Children, Real

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• Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

  Raymond Aron

  Political, France, Utopian

  Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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• And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Thinking, Fantasy

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

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• The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  Adam Gopnik

  Autumn, Light, Games

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

  David Guetta

  Different, Looks, Phases

  "Where Pop Music Meets Dance Music". Interview with Taryn Haight, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust the future of this country to than this one. There is a tendency to live in a nostalgic state in this country, and to think that other generations possessed an integrity and a tenacity greater than the generation that is now. I wholeheartedly disagree with that. I believe that this is a group that will rise up to any challenge that comes before them as well as any other generation in America would have done.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Integrity, Believe

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• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  Deborah Tall

  Children, Video, Looks

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.99, Syracuse University Press

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• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

  Elvis Costello

  Past, My Own

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

  Tom DeLonge

  Art, Kids, Expression

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• When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

  Susan Sontag

  1974 In the New York Review of Books,18 Apr.

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• The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

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• As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Eye, Idlers, Lucky

  Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,

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• Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

  Peter Ackroyd

  1992 English Music, ch.1.

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• I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Roots, Solitude, Purpose

  "Batons rompus". Book by Jean Dubuffet, pp. 34-35, 1986.

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• I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

  Sophie McShera

  Sound, Obsessed, Feels

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• I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

  Ernest Cline

  Thinking, Culture, Gears

  "A Few Minutes With Fanboys Writer Ernest Cline On Ready Player One". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

  Ernest Cline

  Our Generation, Generations, Nostalgia

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• I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Emotional, People, Nostalgia

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• Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

  Matt Ridley

  Prosperity, Stressful, Faster

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• I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Cards, Paper

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Mean, Past, People

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