So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds … - Garth Stein

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Prosthetics just felt very foreign to me: You wear them on your shoulders, strap them to your chest, and they're heavy and uncomfortable. If someone gave you a hug, you'd miss that touch. They were more like a cage for me.

Garth Stein

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.

Communication, Ignorant, Language, People, Sounds, Unspoken

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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.

Deflectors, Dog, Men, Metal, Pain, Taking

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

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

Dog, Give, Giving, Monkeys, Thumbs

That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

Becomes, Car, Eye, Inevitable, Inspirational, Life

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.

Dependent, Difficult, Interpretation, Moving, Parts, Things