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I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

I am not among those who engage in nostalgia, because I think that locks you into a moment in time without thinking about where you are, what needs to be done now.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.