“… And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.”

— Sherman Alexie

Source: Ten Little Indians

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Native American author and filmmaker 1966

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