In every age

In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. – Franklin Pierce Adams

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Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now! – Alice Childress

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