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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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What is the charm that makes old things so sweet? – Sarah Doudney, “Between the Lights,” c.1875

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Nostalgia is a process by which dreams become memories without ever coming true. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. – Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic

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[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. – Ted Koppel

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