Different Quote by Sharon Olds

“Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.”

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“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.”

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“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.”

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