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 Quotes
To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
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Joyce Carol Oates (44)
Birth: | 16th June, 1938 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Critic, Editor, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Professor, Writer |
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