"In love there are two things - bodies and words."
-Joyce Carol Oates
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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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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
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"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling."
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"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others."
-Lucretius
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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
-Margaret Fuller
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