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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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Id rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. – 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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O rose, who dares to name thee?
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Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. – Callimachus

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I dont like nostalgia unless its mine. – Lou Reed

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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. – A.E. Housman

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