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[Joyce Carol Oates]: ... systematic cultivation of pain
in the interest of a life goal:
... such a pain is less chosen or accepted than
inseperably bound up with the combination of
talent & obsession
that drives some writers to write and some fighters to fight ...
life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain