"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breedsAlong the pebbled shore of memory!Many old rotten-timber'd boats there beUpon thy vaporous bosom, magnifiedTo goodly vessels; many a sail of pride,And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry."

Nostalgia, Memory, Loss, Illusion, Time

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"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breedsAlong the pebbled shore of memory!Many old rotten-timber'd boats there beUpon thy vaporous bosom, magnifiedTo goodly vessels; many a sail of pride,And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry."

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Charlaine Harris, American Author

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"He was thinking of that time, the way one does on long journeys when rootlessness and boredom, lack of sleep or routine can summon from out of nowhere random stretches of the past, make them as real as a haunting. --Solar."

Ian McEwan, British Author

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"It still feels weird to spend money on Christmas trees. Back when Mom was alive, we'd go out 'tree hunting. That's what she called it, anyway. I think other people might use the word 'trespassing."

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"Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy."

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"Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;-it affects me as though it were my mother."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

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"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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