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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories… but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu. – Florence King

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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. – Florence King

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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. – Florence King

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that theyre all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. – Florence King

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may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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Remembrance of things past. – William Shakespeare

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I dont like nostalgia unless its mine. – Lou Reed

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The good old times — all times when old are good. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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