“In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.”
"Introduction: The Decline of the City of Mahagonny"
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)
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“Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.”
Ira Glass (1959) American radio personality
"Pandora's Box", This American Life, television season 1, installment 6, 26 April 2007.
This American Life
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
Zeena Schreck (1963) Tantric Buddhist/Sethian
Francis Picabia (1879–1953) French painter and writer
'Udnie – I see Again in Memory my Dear Udnie' is the title of a painting, he made in 1913; a memory of the dances performed by Stasia Napierkowska on the ship to New York, to visit the w:Armory Show, where Picabia was presented in 1913 as a 'leading Cubist painter'
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Source: 'Ecrits: vol. 1', 1913 - 1920, Picabia, Belfond, Paris, p. 26
Florence King (1936–2016) American writer
"Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
“America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.”
Ahmed Chalabi (1944–2015) Iraqi politician
Dexter Filkins, " Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2006/11/05/magazine/1154652190060.html&OQ=_rQ3D1Q268tpwQ3DQ26emcQ3DtpwQ26pagewantedQ3Dprint&OP=7b29a451Q2Fvqfdv_gQ20KK_vmQ20fuQ5EfqvVQ2FQ2FJvQ7DQ7DvQ2FevTQ7CpQ7CQ5CQ5EQ7BfvQ7DQ7DeGJeVQ7DyQ2FQ2FJQ2F!i_TQ3C", New York Times Magazine, November 5, 2006.
L. P. Jacks (1860–1955) British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: The human mind loves the bondage of words and is apt, when freed from one form of their tyranny, to set up another more oppressive than the last.
The highest function of philosophy is to enforce the attitude of meditation and therewithal restrain the excessive volubility of the tongue. To us it seems that the reflective thinker wins his greatest victories when by what he says he compels us to recognise the relative insignificance of anything he can say. His task is not to capture Reality, but to free it from captivity.
