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“The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

“No one who writes a good book is really dead.”
― Walter Moers

“[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain