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“In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It鈥檚 not a crime to wish for other worlds. You鈥檒l get taxed for it but they can鈥檛 throw you in jail for creating your own private world鈥et. Dramatics are fun, an indulgence. 鈥榊ou can鈥檛 go backward,鈥� 鈥榊ou can鈥檛 live in the past,鈥� they tell you. Why not? 鈥榊ou鈥檝e got to put all that behind you and move on to other things,鈥� they say. Bullshit! These are all expressions of modern disposability. It鈥檚 a mediocritizing technique鈥攖rying to get rid of what I call 鈥榩ast orthodoxies.鈥� It鈥檚 our past that makes us unique, therefore it鈥檚 our past that economic interests want to rob from us, so they can sell us a new, improved future. Society now depends on a disposable world鈥攐ut with the old, in with the new, including relationships. But how we weep and wish we could hold onto those cherished moments forever, to those long-whispered dreams, those tortured nights鈥攈ow we want to grasp them and stop them from sifting through our fingers. I say, 鈥楧on鈥檛 let it happen. Keep things the way you want them and let the rest of the world be duped.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

“I don't have low self-esteem. It's a mistake. I have low esteem for everyone else.”
― Daria Morgendorffer

“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, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

“Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“My eyes are darting to all the places my magazines are hidden. I feel like an idiot sometimes for having printed evidence. My friends look at stuff on their phones like it's their job. Don't get me wrong, I've looked, and there's some alright stuff online, but I prefer the magazines. I guess I'm a retro sort of man. Call me classy.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Zombie Tag

“His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.”
― Luke Taylor, Shatterpoint Alpha

“That was 1993 grunge in suburbia. This was 2003 hell in Harlem. (Dark City Lights)”
― Eve Kagan

“America has no now. We're reluctant to acknowledge the present. It's too embarrassing.
Instead, we reach into the past. Our culture is composed of sequels, reruns, remakes, revivals, reissues, re-releases, recreations, reenactments, adaptations, anniversaries, memorabilia, oldies radio, and nostalgia record collections. World War II has been refought so many times, the Germans and Japanese are now drawing residuals.”
― George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“You double bolted your door against the psychopath with the chainsaw, only to be stabbed in the back by your lover, husband, son or neighbour.”
― Ian Rankin

“Whose idea was it to replace the chrome knobs and push buttons on car radios with 'touch screens'?”
― Mark S. Bacon, Death in Nostalgia City

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or arouses a necessary sympathy.”
― Susan Sontag

“Tudo isso porque ter vencido me daria sobreviv锚ncia, mas Leona? Leona me dava vontade de viver.”
― Sarah Oliveira, Opostas em Guerra: Um enemies to lovers nos anos 80

“There's horror, lust and ecstasy on stage at the White Mouse
The Behrenstrasse's Babel, and Berlin's (second) wildest house!
There's love and pain a-plenty dressed in shiny leather boots
But whips and chains and naked hips are nothing when you see
With your own eyes,
This fantasy...
Oh oh, those Berliner Girls
They'll take you to another world.”
― Morgana Blackrose, Phoenyx: Flesh and Fire Erotic Memoirs of a Striptease Artist

“Be batty, be traditional, and be proud.”
― Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling: Fennel's Journal No. 6

“There was an off-planet directory next to an old rotary phone that looked lost, as if it had wandered in the room and was actually looking for a more modern facility.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Catty and Vanessa were vamping it up on the corner of Fairfax and Beverly, in bell-bottoms with exaggerated lacy bells that they must have pulled from Catty's mother's closet.
Vanessa gave them the peace sign. "Feeling' groovy." She winked. She had gorgeous skin, movie-star blue eyes, and flawless blond hair. She was wearing a headband and blue-tinted glasses. Catty was forever getting Vanessa into trouble, but they remained best friends.
"Love and peace," Catty greeted them. Catty was stylish in an artsy sort of way. Right now, she wore a hand-knit cap with pom-pom ties that hung down to her waist, and her puddle-jumping Doc Martens were so wrong with the bell-bottoms that they looked totally right. Her curly brown hair poked from beneath the fuchsia cap and her brown eyes were framed by granny glasses, probably another steal from her mother.
"You like our retro look?" Vanessa giggled at all the cars honking at them.”
― Lynne Ewing, Into the Cold Fire

“Todo lo que es anacr贸nico es obsceno. Como divinidad (moderna), la Historia es represiva, la Historia nos proh铆be ser inactuales. Del pasado, no soportamos m谩s que la ruina, el monumento, el kitsch o el retro, que es divertido; reducimos ese pasado a su sola r煤brica.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“It was probably the stupid glasses. How were you supposed to see anything wearing mirrored sunglasses underground? Any they were so nineties, they weren't even retro yet.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“The past is a dangerous country”
― S.P. Moss after L.P.Hartley

“A machine can be built to do any accurately described job better than any man. The superiority of a man is that he can do an unexpected, undescribed, and emergency job ... provided he hasn't been especially trained to be a machine.”
― MURRAY F. YACO, Unspecialist

“It is the first day of spring. The council have chopped all the elms down in Elm Tree Avenue. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole”
― Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole