Garth Stein Quotes - Page 4

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• What I want now is what I've always wanted.

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  Want, Wanted

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• People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

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  People, Sometimes, Ritual

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

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• A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he i A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive

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  Fate, Race, Track

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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