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Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #boxing #devastating #feeling #hit

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#good #review #surprise #sympathetic #wonderful

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

#boxing #celebration #lost #masculinity #more

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conversational #criticism #essay #even #fiction

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#awards #been #bringing #competitive #deserving

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#am #another #art #comes #conflict

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. ↗

— Barack Obama

#central park #day #folks #go #i

If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#been #cold #cold weather #comfortable #days

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conviction #indescribable #love #love is #perhaps