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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
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I never change, I simply become more myself.
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I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
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I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.
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I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.
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Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
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I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.
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I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.
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Tragedy is the highest form of art.
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Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
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When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
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To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.
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The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.
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Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.
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Every scar in my face is worth it.
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Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.
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Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.
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