Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Boxing
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I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
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Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
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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.
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In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
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Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.
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