Quote by Florence King
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. – Florence King

Other quotes by Florence King

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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Remembrance
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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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alone
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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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Age
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Other Quotes from
Nostalgia
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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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Nostalgia

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

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Nostalgia

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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Nostalgia

The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness. – Isuna Hasekura

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Nostalgia

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Risk more than others think is safe,
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