#cult

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

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame. ↗

— Koo Stark

#because #did #difficult #expect #fame

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#after #conclusion #confronted #definitive #difficult

Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project. ↗

— Wolfgang Staudte

#interested #officer #only #project #russian

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#difficult #going #i #into #people

I was a pretty difficult teenager. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#i #pretty #teenager

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#childhood #childhood memories #difficult #feeling #floods

At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#been #comfortable #difficult #easy #feeling

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#difficult #find #more #than #through

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy. ↗

— Matt Stone

#coarse #culture #just #kind #level