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• I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

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  Dog, Believe, Men

  Garth Stein (2011). “Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog”, p.18, Harper Collins

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

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  Responsibility, May, Problem

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

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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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• Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

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  Use, Gestures, Impossible

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

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• ...you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

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  Heaven

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• Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

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  Gestures, Sometimes

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes, we simply have to believe.

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  Believe, Soul, Want

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

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• The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

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  Race, Long, Crash

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• The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

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  Together, Saws, Firsts

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

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• This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly. Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

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  Skills, Watches, Needs

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

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