Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life."
Contending quotes
Contending
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Lincoln Steffens
Journalist
"I have been contending all my life, and always with God."
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