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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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  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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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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  Beautiful, Cheer, Adversity

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

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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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  Race, Racing, Firsts

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

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• That which we manifest is before us.

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  Manifest

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

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• People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

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  Dog, Race, People

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

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• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

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  Found Objects, Documentaries, Stories

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• When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small, dexterous tongue. I will shake hands with other men, grasping firmly with my opposable thumbs. And I will teach all people that I know. And when I see a man or a woman or a child in trouble, I will extend my hand, both metaphorically and physically. I will offer my hand. To him. To her. To you. To the world. I will be a good citizen, a good partner in the endeaver of life that we all share.

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  Children, Men, Hands

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• It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

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  Moving, Interpretation, Difficult

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

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• The car goes where the eyes go.

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  Eye, Car

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

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• That which you manifest is before you.

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  Manifest

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

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• I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What's wrong with that idea?

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  Spiritual, Ideas, People

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.

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  Children, Heart, Past

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• In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

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  Wall, Eye, Track

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

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• In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.

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  Summer, Winter, Tree

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

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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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  Rain, Believe, Racing

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• We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

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  Existence

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• To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.

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  Mistake, Team, Race

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

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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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  Feasting

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

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• We are the creators of our own destiny.

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  Destiny, Creator

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

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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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  Stolen, Live Every Day, Ifs

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

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• Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?

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  Lonely, Mind, World

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

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• It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.

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  Thinking, Our World, Champion

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

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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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• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

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  Dog, Art, Rain

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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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