"In love there are two things - bodies and words."
-Joyce Carol Oates
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"Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.“
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"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."
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"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"
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"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."
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"As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise."
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"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
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