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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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"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."
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"Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall]."
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"If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place."
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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
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"Hmm", Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride.Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first."
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"Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'."
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"If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours."
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"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
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"Compete with yourself, you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!"
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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
Performance
"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."
Poetry
"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."
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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
Creativity
"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."
Needs
"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
Poet
"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."
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"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."
Thought
"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."
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"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."
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