Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and...

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and...

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid...

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid...

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure...

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure...

We must love one another or die.

We must love one another or die.