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"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
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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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"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."
Thought
"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
Competition
"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
College
"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."
People
"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."
Woman
"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."
Life
"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."
Society
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
Sadness
"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life."
Life
"I like poking my nose into other people's lives."
People
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