"Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past."

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Source : "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

Peter Carey

#Pain Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”
“Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.”
“Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation”
“Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.”
“I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.”
“I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.'”
“It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.”
“A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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