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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

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

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

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I believe in being positive.

Positive Believe I Believe Being

I'm a magazine junkie. I have 30 different subscriptions to various magazines, and I like old-school, real magazines.

Real Magazine Different Like Various

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Time Action Thinking Stop Go Take

I love different eclectic bands. I love Phoenix and Kimber.

Love Phoenix Different Eclectic

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Power Influence America New Military

We needed 40 years to overcome East Germany. Sometimes in history, one has to be prepared for the long haul and not ask after four months if it still makes sense to keep up our demands.

History Long Be Prepared Sometimes

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

Family Mother Time Day Talent War

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Beautiful Identity Lady Two Poison

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Heart Grief Death Words Happy True

I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.

Baby Born Country Classic Middle

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Wisdom Decision People Thoughts You

The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have to really take some shots, and I've walked away with some bumps and bruises.

Comedy You Fall Way See Coming

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