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“A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he i A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best to maintain his line and gradually get himself back on the track when it is safe to do so. Yes, he loses a few places in the race. Yes, he is at a disadvantage. But he is still racing. He is still alive”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

“The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...”
― Colin Dexter, Service of All the Dead