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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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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
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Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
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Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
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Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
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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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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
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