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“I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.”
Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward”
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“I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.”
Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015. 
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“The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.”
Source : 1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.
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“When you talk like an ***** and look like an asshole, you're an asshole”
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“When one teaches, two learn.”
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“Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.”
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“American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.”
