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How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
JOYCE CAROL OATES, The Falls
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
JOYCE CAROL OATES, On Boxing
Is Time outside me, I started wondering in high school. When things began to go fast. Or is Time inside me. If OUTSIDE you have to keep pace with f***ing clocks & calendars. No slacking off. If INSIDE, you do what you want. Whatever. You create your own Time. Like breaking the hands off a clock like I did once so it's just the clock face there looking at you.
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Zombie
There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Zombie
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Do With Me What You Will
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
JOYCE CAROL OATES, "Interior Monologue," The Wheel of Love and Other Stories
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