Old Days Quotes
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“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
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“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”
― Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties
― Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties

“Everyone thinks that the old days were better, or that they were harder, and the modern times are chaotic and complex, or easier all around, but I think people's hearts have always been the same, happy and sad, and that hasn't changed at all. It's just the shapes of lives that change, not the lives themselves.”
― Mink River
― Mink River

“So don't let nobody tell you any different about the old days. Life is hard now, nothing but suffering, but some kinds of suffering is easier to bear than others.”
― Dread Nation
― Dread Nation

“Emil was already familiar with those people who always say, 鈥淕oodness, everything was better in the old days.鈥� And he no longer listened when people told him that in the old days the air was cleaner or that cows had bigger heads. Because it usually wasn鈥檛 true. Those people simply wanted to be dissatisfied, because otherwise they would have to be satisfied.”
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“In those days, at least in my small town, parents didn't seem to worry so much about what their kids were doing as long as they made it home in time for dinner.”
― Chips of Red Paint
― Chips of Red Paint

“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot old man say: 鈥淵es, it鈥檚 the old iambic tetrameter acalectic.鈥� It was the equivalent of a Cornish fisherman pointing out the difference, in practicality incomprehensible dialect, between the Petrachian and the Spenserian sonnet. It was quite correct. Where on earth had he learnt it? His last bit of information was that, in the old days (that wonderful cupboard!) the Arabs used to come to this coast to dive for the murex.”
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
― Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

“As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.”
― The Age of Miracles
― The Age of Miracles

“Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.”
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“The ring of the old telephones, the clacking of typewriters, milk in bottles, baseball without designated hitters, vinyl records, galoshes, stockings and garter belts, black-and-white movies, heavyweight champions, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, paperback books for thirty-five cents, the political left, Jewish dairy restaurants, double features, basketball before the three-point shot, palatial movie houses, nondigital cameras, toaster that lasted for thirty years, contempt for authority, Nash Ramblers, and wood-paneled station wagons. But there is nothing you miss more than the world as it was before smoking was banned in public places.”
― Winter Journal
― Winter Journal

“In the old days, even the most inconsequential people were impressive. You don't hear such stories these days, do you?”
― The Pillow Book
― The Pillow Book

“When I was a kid鈥e believed it was butter, and we drank whole milk.
Now, coffee, cheese, flour, oil, sugar, salt, beer, and ice cream are bad for us, and we should eat foods that are improved, no-fat, lo-cal, lite, organic, unsaturated, decaffeinated, artificial, or taste awful, and contain enough dyes and preservatives to look appetizing and last a long time in their pretty packaging that is 43% of their retail cost figuring in advertising.”
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Now, coffee, cheese, flour, oil, sugar, salt, beer, and ice cream are bad for us, and we should eat foods that are improved, no-fat, lo-cal, lite, organic, unsaturated, decaffeinated, artificial, or taste awful, and contain enough dyes and preservatives to look appetizing and last a long time in their pretty packaging that is 43% of their retail cost figuring in advertising.”
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“She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.”
― Back Roads
― Back Roads

“Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.”
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“It鈥檚 such a shame. So many people today rely on their cellphones. No one remembers phone numbers anymore.”
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
― The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“These legends,' murmured Pizarro, 'which of us can say if they're true or not? So many memories come to as though from out of the fog. Sometimes I wake up in the morning convinced that I'm in my village in my beloved Extramadura, making a bell, absolutely sure that that's what I've done all my life. Then I remember where I am, and what I've seen, and I become old again.”
― Incas: The Light of Machu Picchu
― Incas: The Light of Machu Picchu
“Let's take a selfie."
"We can't; our phones are dead, remember? We'll just have to have the memory in our hearts like the old days.”
― Always and Forever, Lara Jean
"We can't; our phones are dead, remember? We'll just have to have the memory in our hearts like the old days.”
― Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. "
"Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well."
"Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.”
― Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales
"Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well."
"Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.”
― Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“亘賷賳 爻胤賵乇 賴匕賴 丕賱賯氐丞貙 爻賵賮 賳乇噩毓賰賲 廿賱賶 夭賲賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘爻賷胤丞貙 夭賲賳 丕賱胤賷亘賷賳貙 賵丨賷丕丞 丕賱匕賰乇賷丕鬲 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞.”
― 賷賱丕 卮乇丿丞
― 賷賱丕 卮乇丿丞

“Between the lines of this story, you will be taken to the time of simple life, simple people, & the life of beautiful memories.”
― 賷賱丕 卮乇丿丞
― 賷賱丕 卮乇丿丞

“When his mentor spoke of the old days, the knights were heroes, not outlaws, and knowing right from wrong, good from evil seemed as natural as breathing. Nowadays, the once clear waters of morality had grown brackish. The country was fractured, one man鈥檚 admiration was liable to garner you another man鈥檚 animosity.”
― Gathering of the Crimson Cloaks
― Gathering of the Crimson Cloaks
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