Quotes about Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

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

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

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

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

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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

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

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

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

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