'Because there has been no one to stop me' has been one of the principles of my life.
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We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred but once it's gone -- its value is incontestable.Joyce Carol Oates
To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
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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.
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
Joyce Carol Oates
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