“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 déjà vu.”
"Déjà Views", in Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye (1989), p. 112
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Florence King 9
American writer 1936–2016Related quotes
“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
“Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.”
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
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Source: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 4 (p. 58)
Context: I hate that word. You know who uses it mostly? Time patriots. Same people who live in the best country in the world. Must be the best because that’s where they live. And they live in the best of times; has to be best because it’s their lifetime. You even suggest there just might have been better times than here and now, and it’s ‘nostalgia, nostalgia.’ Don’t even know what the word means. Means overly sentimental, for crysakes.
New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1964.
1960s
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified