I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of … - Garth Stein

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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Garth Stein

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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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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. . . 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!

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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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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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