"We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu."

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“The American Enterprise Magazine”

“The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her.”

“Magellan's Log: Florence King”

“Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.”

“There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.”

“Florence King on National Review Online”

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— Kapka Kassabova

Literature1973

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— Adolf Galland

Military1912–1996

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— Lucy Mack Smith

Literature1775–1856

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"Of course, my landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.. .By 'untruthful' I mean the glorifying way we look…"

— Gerhard Richter

Art1932

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