“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.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
“[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
“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.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
A monkey?
I think not.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
“That which we manifest is before us.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
“If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
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