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Garth Stein is an American author and film producer from Seattle, Washington. Widely known as the author of the novel The Art of Racing in the Rain, Stein is also a documentary film maker, playwright, teacher, and amateur racer. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. December 1964

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The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Famous Garth Stein Quotes

“That which we manifest is before us.”

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“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”

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

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Garth Stein Quotes

“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”

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Soul , Learning

“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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Variant: Such a simple concept, yet so true: 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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Failure , Success

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

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Mood

“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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People , Communication

“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”

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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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Fear , Nature , Time , Parting

“The car goes where the eyes go.”

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Cars

“Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.”

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Dance

“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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Soul , Learning

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

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People

“To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”

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“We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.”

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Heart , Perfection

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

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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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“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”

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Truth

“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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Love , Beauty , Sun , Box

“[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.”

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Time

“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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Problem

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

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Learning

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

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Nature

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”

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Death

“Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.”

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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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“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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Cars , Water , Speed

“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 , Tree

“The visible becomes inevitable…”

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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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World , Thinking , Personality

“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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Soul , Idea , Fish

“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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Communication , Parting , Dependency

“One more lap, Denny! One more lap!”

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