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People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

Bill Vaughn
It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.

Doug Larson
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Franklin Pierce Adams
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Griff Niblack
If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had....

Owens Lee Pomeroy
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Ted Koppel
[I]t becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Will Rogers
Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.

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