#retro

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. ↗

— Simon Reynolds

#morrissey #music #nostalgia #past #pop

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. ↗

— Bob Hope

#give #glow #great #greatest #happiness

The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#retrospect #life

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. ↗

— David Ricardo

#common #fall #retrograde #rise #society

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#despair #despair-hope #encouraging #facet #hope

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#glamorous #only #retrospect

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff. ↗

— Ted Demme

#filmmakers #films #happens #i #i think

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ↗

— Robert Frost

#books #i #i am #learn #order

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#before #being #complacency #exists #mind

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree. ↗

— Marc Newson

#history #i #know #people #people say