Steve Toltz Quotes
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Don't touch me, you fat ghost!
— Steve Toltz
A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can't seem to make any headway in the cold streets
— Steve Toltz
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment.
— Steve Toltz
Tell me, sonny, what do you think makes good army material?" the recruiting officer asked. "Light cotton?
— Steve Toltz
Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space.
— Steve Toltz
I haven't been part of the criminal world.
— Steve Toltz
I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
— Steve Toltz
Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.
— Steve Toltz
Why is free will wasted on a creature who has infinite choices but pretends there are only one or two?
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We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.
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People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there's room.
— Steve Toltz
I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.
— Steve Toltz
People are not mysterious because they never shut up!
— Steve Toltz
The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.
— Steve Toltz
existence is humiliation, anyway.
— Steve Toltz
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
— Steve Toltz
As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending our relationship so unexpectedly
— Steve Toltz
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
— Steve Toltz
It would annoy me to be killed by someone who doesn't especially hate me as an individual, or who I didn't personally betray.
— Steve Toltz
Friendships are an unforseeable burden.
— Steve Toltz
Come on, just say, "I do." It comes from the verb "to do." That's all you need for now. Then we'll move you on to "I did.
— Steve Toltz
Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the act of denying Death.
— Steve Toltz
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
— Steve Toltz
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'
— Steve Toltz
Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
— Steve Toltz
I had begun to perceive my genitals as imaginary beasts in some epic fourteenth-century Scottish poem.
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Sex: the match that sets off human firework.
— Steve Toltz
We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.
— Steve Toltz
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
— Steve Toltz
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
— Steve Toltz
On day after class he asked me to wait behind.
— Steve Toltz
There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
— Steve Toltz
I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
— Steve Toltz
I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.
— Steve Toltz
Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.
— Steve Toltz
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
— Steve Toltz
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
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Amen' is like the Send button on an email.
— Steve Toltz
The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.
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The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!
— Steve Toltz
Don't be afraid to have nothing.
— Steve Toltz
There's nothing I would do again the same, and if given the opportunity, I would decline the opportunity.
— Steve Toltz
People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.
— Steve Toltz
It's important to always take sides. Both sides,
— Steve Toltz
We drank for another hour and I mutilated many of my most coherent thoughts by putting them into words.
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There's freedom in looking crazy.
— Steve Toltz
Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
— Steve Toltz
She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die.
— Steve Toltz
A life strategy of minimizing regrets only winds up guaranteeing you suffer the maximum.
— Steve Toltz
Love is hard work.
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I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.
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Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos.
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There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read.
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We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way.
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What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.
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