John Green Quotes About Nostalgia
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Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
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And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
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