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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.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Born: Jun 16, 1938

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Feeling, Pain, Paralysis, About, Rather, More, Winning, Devastating, Boxing, Hit, Than, Hitting, Just, Being, Psychological

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