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“Ten for the Ten Commandments
Eleven for the leven that went to heaven
Twelve for the twelve Apostles”
—Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 3032)
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxingfor 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 its impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
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