People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy … - Garth Stein

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There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

Garth Stein

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

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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.

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

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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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