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— Sharon Olds"I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages."
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Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.
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