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Quote with a picture of Iain Banks.

“Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.” — Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas

Author YahooeyPosted on September 23, 2022September 21, 2022Categories QuotationsTags competition, Iain BanksLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote on a view of Cerbère, France.

“We’re all anxiously sizing up how everyone else’s decisions have worked out to reassure ourselves that our own are vindicated — that we are, in some sense, winning.” — Tim Kreider, “The Referendum,” New York Times (02009-09-17)

Author YahooeyPosted on September 22, 2022September 21, 2022Categories QuotationsTags competition, Tim Kreider, winningLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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The trouble with comparing oneself to others is that there are too many others.

“The trouble with comparing oneself to others is that there are too many others.” — Sarah Manguso, Short Days, The Paris Review (Winter 2014)

Author YahooeyPosted on January 6, 2019December 29, 2018Categories QuotationsTags comparison, competition, others, Paris Review, Sarah Manguso, Short DaysLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

“I’m afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can’t stop competing; otherwise I’m fine.” — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook

Author YahooeyPosted on June 6, 2017May 28, 2017Categories QuotationsTags competition, lose, Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook, win1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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