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Letter "J" » Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
«Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.»
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
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«Lots of people I was starting to hate who I used to like a lot. But when you like people, you can hurt. I'd made a few mistakes with girl friends, and one or two guys I'd thought were my buddies, and I wouldn't make these mistakes again.»
«The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.»
«She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it»
«It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.»
«We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.»
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«Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.»
«Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.»
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«When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.»
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