"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."
-Joyce Carol Oates
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"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"
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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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"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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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
-Hunter S. Thompson
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
-Michael Jordan
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"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
-Dave Barry
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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air."
-Jack Benny
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"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."
-George Brett
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