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“Advice is a form of Nostalgia”
― Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
― Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
“I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.”
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
― The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
“It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different.”
― Love Warps the Mind a Little
― Love Warps the Mind a Little
“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
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