Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...
The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.
There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
From the splendors of the coffee, the mongeaunt remained unchanged.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...