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 Herman Melville
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of...
So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish!...
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's...
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
