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The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
Garth Stein
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Garth Stein
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 6
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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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[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.
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The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen.
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To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.
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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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This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner many have been lost there.
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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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We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.
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But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?
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Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!
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You should shine with all of your light all the time.
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I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body... It is about believing that you are not you you are everything. And everything is you.
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I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!
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We are the creators of our own destiny.
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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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That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.
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Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.
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That which we manifest is before us we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
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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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