Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia …

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Murray said, ´I don´t trust anybody´s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.´ ✨ Don DeLillo (2011). White Noise, p.286, Pan Macmillan
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