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Janus
«It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.»
Author: Carson McCullers
(Writer)
| Keywords:
coaster, have in mind, homesick, homesickness, Janus-faced, Janus, jukebox, Native American, nostalgia, roller, rollers, roller coaster, torn, trait, urge
«Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.»
Author: Stanley H Cath
| About:
Achievement,
Children,
Parents
| Keywords:
accomplishments, gaining, Janus-faced, Janus, middle age
«Now, by two-headed Janus,Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fellows, framed, headed, Janus