Garth Stein Short Quotes

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We had a good run, and now it's over; what's wrong with that?

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

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

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

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Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

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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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That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

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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'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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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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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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She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

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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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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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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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The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.

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I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

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Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

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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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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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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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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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