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  1. Doris Lessing _ Re: Colonised Planet 5,

    This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.
    book-quotenostalgia

  2. Marshall McLuhan _ The Mechanical Bride: Folklore

    The formula for this brand of "historical" writing is to put the public on the inside; to let them feel the palpitations of royal and imperial lovers and to overhear their lispings and cooings. It can be argued that a man has to live somewhere, and that if his own time is so cut up by rapid change that he can't find a cranny big enough to relax in, then he must betake himself to the past. That is certainly one motive in the production of historical romance, from Sir Walter Scott to Thornton Wilder. But mainly this formula works as a means of flattery. The public is not only invited inside but encouraged to believe that there is nothing inside that differs from its own thoughts and feelings. This reassurance is provided by endowing historical figures with the sloppiest possible minds. The great are "humanized" by being trivial.The debunking school began by making the great appear as corrupt, or mean and egotistical. The "humanizers" have merely carried on to make them idiotic. "Democratic" vanity has reached such proportions that it cannot accept as human anything above the level of cretinous confusion of mind of the type popularized by Hemingway's heroes. Just as the new star must be made to appear successful by reason of some freak of fortune, so the great, past or present, must be made to seem so because of the most ordinary qualities, to which fortune adds an unearned trick or idea."
    book-quotetruthtimepast

  3. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    when we were kidslaying around the lawnon ourbellies we often talkedabouthowwe'd like todie andwe allagreed on thesamething; we'd alllike to diefucking {althoughnone of ushaddone anyfucking} and nowthatwe are hardlykidsany longer we think moreabouthownot todie andalthoughwe'reready most ofuswouldprefer todo italone under thesheets nowthat most ofus have fuckedour livesaway.
    book-quotelovelifedeath

  4. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C.S.

    Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.
    book-quotesufferingenvynostalgia

  5. Michael Marshall Smith _ By Blood We Live

    Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
    book-quotenostalgiagrowing-older

  6. Dante Alighieri

    There is no greater sorro
    nostalgiaitalian-medieval-poetryà-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu

  7. Virginia Woolf _ To the Lighthouse

    It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out {she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights} in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.
    book-quotepeacenostalgia

  8. Virginia Woolf _ Mrs. Dalloway

    For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.
    book-quotememoriesnostalgia

  9. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    ...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.
    book-quotemotherhoodnostalgiajealousy

  10. R.L. Stine _ Ghost Camp

    At least I rescued your poor hot dog.
    book-quotehumorfunnygrief

  11. Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind

    I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.
    book-quotepainnostalgia

  12. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him.
    book-quotenostalgiaemotional-pain
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