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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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"Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals."
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"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."
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"Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape."
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"Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing."
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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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"Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score."
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"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."
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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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"Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning."
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"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 writers are very anxious."
Anxiety
"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 disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."
Age
"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
"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 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
"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
"I like poking my nose into other people's lives."
People
"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
College
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