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"I read this over today, for the first time since I wrote it. It's full of nostalgia, every word loaded with it, although at the time I wrote it I thought I was being 'objective.' Nostalgia for what? I don't know. Because I'd rather die than have to live through any of that again. And the 'Anna' of that time is like an enemy, or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."
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"The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while."
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"Sometimes to return is a vulgarity."
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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."
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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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"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away."
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"I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?"
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"I was adored once too."
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"I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you."
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"I think we ought to find something else to do, said Mandy. "But Alecto my love, you're the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project."I like it. It's got that let's-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance, Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed."
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"Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."
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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Work
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
Fool
"Pearls mean tears."
Symbolism
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
Change
"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
Thought
"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
Writing
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
Life
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
Truth
"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
Opportunity
"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
Law
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