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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

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  Hate, Numbers, Honest

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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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• If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted.

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  Wells, Therapy, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

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  Soul, Care, Nervous

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

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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 much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

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  Communication, People, Ignorant

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

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• I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!

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  Giving Up, Believe, Darkness

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

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  Heaven

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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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• 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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