Sunday Dinner: Nostalgia

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“Memory believes before knowing remembers.

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William Faulkner

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“Remembrance of things past

is not necessarily the remembrance of things

as they were.”

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Marcel Proust

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“The ‘what should be’ never did exist,

but people keep trying to live up to it.

There is no ‘what should be,’

there is only what is.”

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Lenny Bruce

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“There comes a time in your life

when you have to choose to turn the page,

write another book

or simply close it.”

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Shannon L. Alder

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“We are homesick most

for the places we have never known.”

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Carson McCullers

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“It is strange how we

hold on to the pieces of the past

while we wait for our futures.”

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Ally Condie

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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017 

For my friend, Janet, who I miss often, and learn from, always

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“Nostalgia in reverse,

the longing for yet another strange land,

grew especially strong in spring.”

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Vladimir Nabokov

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“For children, childhood is timeless.  It is always the present.

Everything is in the present tense.

Of course, they have memories.

Of course, time shifts a little for them

and Christmas comes round in the end.

But they don’t feel it.

Today is what they feel,

and when they say ‘When I grow up,’

there is always an edge of disbelief—

how could they ever be other than what they are?”

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Ian McEwan

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