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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future

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

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

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