"In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were"
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Kenneth More, an actor associated with steady, decency-coded British screen roles, isn’t performing intellectual cool here. He’s voicing a craving for reliability as an emotional survival strategy. The phrase “it is good to feel” is doing real work: he’s not claiming permanence exists, only that the sensation of it matters when everything else is in flux. That modesty is the subtext. It’s less manifesto than sigh.
The last clause - “some things and some people seem to stay just as they were” - is carefully hedged with “seem.” More understands that stability might be partly projection, a chosen illusion. But it’s an illusion with a purpose: in a chaotic public arena, we cling to familiar characters not because they’re flawless, but because they help the rest of the plot stay legible.
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| Topic | Nostalgia |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
More, Kenneth. (2026, January 16). In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-an-upside-down-world-with-all-the-rules-being-126905/
Chicago Style
More, Kenneth. "In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-an-upside-down-world-with-all-the-rules-being-126905/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-an-upside-down-world-with-all-the-rules-being-126905/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.






