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I understand the nostalgia of having paper to feel and smell when you read it, but I would rather have fond memories of newspapers that have become obsolete than fond memories of beautiful forests that have become obsolete.

— Jasika Nicole

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

— Andy Summers

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

— Doug Larson

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

— Sloane Crosley

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

— Tina Brown

I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

— Jami Attenberg

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.

— Jill Abramson

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

— Paul Theroux

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

— Chris O'Dowd

In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.

— Romesh Gunesekera

Anything on paper is obsolete!

— Craig Bruce