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"This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - 'nostalgia' is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined."
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"Sometimes to return is a vulgarity."
"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."
"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away."
"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."
"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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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
"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."
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
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