Long ago Quote by Ellen Meloy

“As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and pass it…

— Monica Hesse

“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only been defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What, I wonder, are the social consequences of life in a country that has no use for history?”

— Teju Cole

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“The paradise is here. Paradise is right in front of us. In capitalism what is engineered is longing, engineered longing and desire in us…

— Krista Tippett

“I think it's my memory of this period that makes me fantasise about living in the country. In reality I know there would be…

— Frankie Boyle

“It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each…

— Robin Hobb

“This newfangled country is starting to grow on me, the adult despair of it all. Stuff I can relate to: lost loves, lost houses,…

— Jonathan Evison

“The past is another country, but the Seventies is another planet.”

— Mark Steyn

“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever known. But…

— Victoria Aveyard

“I have seen descriptions of Paradise sufficient to make all sensible people give up their hopes of it.”

— Montesquieu