“I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.”
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Nostalgic Quotes — page 15 of 136
“What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.”
“We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.”
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
“There's still value in a CD, even if it's just nostalgic. People are still willing to pay. But it can't compare to a digital-only release where you can control the exact time that it'll come out, you know what I mean? So whoever finds how to bridge that gap is gonna make a lot of money.”
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
“If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
“I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, "I guess you're so big we bore you now."”
“When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”
“Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train.”
“What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naïveté, we would watch the passing clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not float so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls?”
“I was into Barbie and designer jeans.”
“You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.”
“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.”
“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.”
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
“Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.”
“Future is everything that past has forgotten.”
“Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird”