Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

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...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

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.

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.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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...

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

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

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...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

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

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

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...

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked...

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked...

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength