“Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions
“Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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If food is poetry, is not poetry
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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If food is poetry, is not poetry
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
— Joyce Carol Oates
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Category: poetry
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In love there are two things –
“In love there are two things – bodies and words.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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If you are a writer you locate
“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer
“It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: history
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I could never take the idea of
“I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
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