"Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?"

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Source : 1992 English Music, ch.1.

Peter Ackroyd

#Nostalgic Quotes

“The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity”
“I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.”
“This is the equivalent of an â€œinternal showerâ€. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.”
“I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library
“Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.”
“But more than any of that, I was thankful for the possibility he'd shown me: that a man really could love a woman enough that he'd do anything to protect her. That's how much Tod loved Addy. That's how much I wanted Nash to love me.”
“All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.”
“A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother -- she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them -- for maternity implies suffering -- is infinitely more valuable in God's sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.”

Source : "Alice Von Hildebrand on Feminism and Femininity". Zenit Interview, zenit.org. November 26, 2003.

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