"I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran."

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Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.

— Donald Ray Pollock