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• People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

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  Dark, People, Speak

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• These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.

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  Dog, Pain, Men

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• I’ve always felt almost human. I’ve always known that there’s something about me that’s different than other dogs. Sure, I’m stuffed into a dog’s body, but that’s just the shell. It’s what’s inside that’s important. The soul. And my soul is very human.

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  Dog, Soul, Important

  Garth Stein (2011). “Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.

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  Mistake, Rain, Track

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

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  Rain, Want, Eggshells

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient. At that moment, honestly, I had grave doubts as to my ability to interact on such a level. I wondered if I could ever become the human I hoped to be.

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  Worry, Doubt, Desire

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.

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  Men, Ideas, Soul

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.

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  Eye, Past, Differences

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• The visible becomes inevitable.

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  Inevitable, Visible

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

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  Zebras, Real, Book

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions. I know that this justice will come when the universe deems it appropriate and it may not be in this lifetime or the next, or the one after that.... but it will come.

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  Karma, Kings, People

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

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  Thinking, Moon, Men

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• He is so brilliant. He shines. He's beautiful with his hands that grab things and his tongue that says things and the way he stands and chews his food for so long, mashing it into a paste before he swallows.

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  Beautiful, Hands, Long

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.

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  Eye, Car, Host

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• And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

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  Mistake, Desire, Shunning

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?

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  Running

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

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  Dog, People, Stories

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• Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

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  Dog, Giving, Thumbs

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• [M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

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  Remember, Folding

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

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  Art, Book, Inspiration

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• I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.

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  Book, Reading, Conversation

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• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

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  Dog, Narrators, Thumbs

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• Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

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  Dog, Hurt, Long

  "Q & A with Garth". Interview, www.garthstein.com.

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• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

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  Athlete, Games, Interesting

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• I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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