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"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
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"The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years."
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"It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period."
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
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"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."
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"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
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"From one match to the next, I kept on winning."
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"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."
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"No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink."
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"Winning tastes good."
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"Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum."
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
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"Insults are the business of the court."
Business

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
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"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
Government

"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
Reading

"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
Cultural

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
Peace

"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."
Man

"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."
Life

"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."
People
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