"From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . ."

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Source : David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.336, Hachette UK

David Nicholls

#Views Quotes #Desire Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.”

Source : William Alexander Percy (1973). “Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son”, p.4, LSU Press
“I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.”
“What I am looking for is a certain grace.”
“But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.”
“The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.”
“The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.”
“An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.”
“the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.”

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