What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth, and change our only constancy.
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David Budbill
It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be
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Kristen Ashley
We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. We’re either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel, the older we get, the more memories we collect. Nostalgia is...
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Anthony Marais
I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy, in its tuneless spark, it bypassed poetry and entered science.
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Lorrie Moore
The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be, ' there is only what is.
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Lenny Bruce
More Quotes By Maureen Corrigan
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're "decoding
I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
The child who gets lost in a book can emerge from the experience a changeling.
Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.
