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.
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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.
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 is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
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.
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
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