"Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects.……" — Joyce Carol Oates

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only… - Joyce Carol Oates

"Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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More Boxing Quotes

This quote is filed under Boxing Quotes, one of 826 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the… — Alexis Arguello
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. — John Barrymore
A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the… — Gael Garcia Bernal
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was… — Andrea Bocelli
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up… — Frank Bruno
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. — Frank Bruno
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the… — Frank Bruno
I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way. — Sophia Bush
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me… — Muhammad Ali
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed… — Muhammad Ali

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