The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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In love there are things --- bodies and words.

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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

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In love there are two things - bodies and words.

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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

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