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"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
"Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good."
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
"I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision."
"Life can often be a competition and your greatest opponent is yourself."
"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
"If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first."
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"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."
"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."
"I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling."
"I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it."
"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."
"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."
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