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“[The] third man in the ring makes boxing possible.”
On the introduction of referees in the late 19th century
On Boxing (1987)
“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.”
Do What You Will (1970), pt. 2, ch. 15
On Boxing (1987)
Tavis Smiley interview (2005)
"The Calendar's New Clothes," New York Times (30 December 1999)
Tavis Smiley interview (2005)
"Writers’ Hunger: Food as Metaphor," New York Times (19 August 1986)
"The Summing Up: Meredith Dawe," Do What You Will (1970)
“Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.”
As quoted in "Master Race," Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition (1985), edited by William Phillips
“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”
"Writers’ Hunger: Food as Metaphor," New York Times (19 August 1986)
“The writer is a “somewhat mystical” — or do I mean “mythical?””
person.
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)
On Boxing (1987)
"What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?" Mademoiselle (February 1970)
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)
“Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.”
Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)
On Boxing (1987)
Joyce Carol Oates buch You Must Remember This
You Must Remember This (1987), pt. 1, ch. 13
“It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.”
Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)
Joyce Carol Oates buch You Must Remember This
that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms — nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
You Must Remember This (1987), pt. 1, ch. 13
