"I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk..."

Nostalgia, Ireland, Dream, Memory

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"I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk..."

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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Nostalgia, Memory, Past, Thought, Emotion

"I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Nostalgia, Refugee, Home, Hiraeth, Yearning

"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Nostalgia, Youth, Memory, Desire

"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Longing, Change, Spring

"Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Childhood, Memory, Emotion, Wonder

"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Nostalgia, Happiness, Memory, Time, Reflection

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

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Nostalgia, History, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

"You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Nostalgia, Home, Comfort, Food

"I was adored once too."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Nostalgia, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Nostalgia, Autumn, Memory, Love, Nature

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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."

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"I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again..."

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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

Art

"I keep coming back to certain books, and you-to try to find myself again."

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"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."

Freedom

"Evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it..."

Philosophy

"I'm the last person to ask about unrequited love - I've run away to the Moon and fled to its valleys..."

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"If you're an artist, you've submitted to authority..."

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"But you - women like you are dangerous- ominous " take care, Love " men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity..."

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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."

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