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Steve Toltz quotes: Don't touch me, you fat ghost! Don't touch me, you fat ghost!
Steve Toltz quotes: I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
Steve Toltz quotes: A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can't seem to make any headway in the cold streets A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can't seem to make any headway in the cold streets
Steve Toltz quotes: 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. 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 quotes: When it comes to taking your own life, preparation is procrastination. When it comes to taking your own life, preparation is procrastination.
Steve Toltz quotes: Tell me, sonny, what do you think makes good army material?" the recruiting officer asked. "Light cotton? Tell me, sonny, what do you think makes good army material?" the recruiting officer asked. "Light cotton?
Steve Toltz quotes: Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space. 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 quotes: I haven't been part of the criminal world. I haven't been part of the criminal world.
Steve Toltz quotes: To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being. To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.
Steve Toltz quotes: I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story. I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
Steve Toltz quotes: Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet. Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.
Steve Toltz quotes: Why is free will wasted on a creature who has infinite choices but pretends there are only one or two? Why is free will wasted on a creature who has infinite choices but pretends there are only one or two?
Steve Toltz quotes: To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
Steve Toltz quotes: We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.
Steve Toltz quotes: It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become. It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become.
Steve Toltz quotes: People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there's room. 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 quotes: I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like. I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.
Steve Toltz quotes: People are not mysterious because they never shut up! People are not mysterious because they never shut up!
Steve Toltz quotes: The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. 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 quotes: existence is humiliation, anyway. existence is humiliation, anyway.
Steve Toltz quotes: I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential. I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
Steve Toltz quotes: The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that. The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
Steve Toltz quotes: 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 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Friendships are an unforseeable burden. Friendships are an unforseeable burden.
Steve Toltz quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Feeling like the last sober man in a crazed nation that ran on booze. Feeling like the last sober man in a crazed nation that ran on booze.
Steve Toltz quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.
Steve Toltz quotes: When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?' 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 quotes: Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
Steve Toltz quotes: I had begun to perceive my genitals as imaginary beasts in some epic fourteenth-century Scottish poem. I had begun to perceive my genitals as imaginary beasts in some epic fourteenth-century Scottish poem.
Steve Toltz quotes: Sex: the match that sets off human firework. Sex: the match that sets off human firework.
Steve Toltz quotes: We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary. We know what country this is: It's the stupid place where twenty-plus million people boast about being ordinary.
Steve Toltz quotes: I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
Steve Toltz quotes: I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day. I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
Steve Toltz quotes: On day after class he asked me to wait behind. On day after class he asked me to wait behind.
Steve Toltz quotes: There is something so arbitrary about prizes. There is something so arbitrary about prizes.
Steve Toltz quotes: I enjoy being influenced by other writers. I enjoy being influenced by other writers.
Steve Toltz quotes: The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present. The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.
Steve Toltz quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.
Steve Toltz quotes: Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race? Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race?
Steve Toltz quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
Steve Toltz quotes: Amen' is like the Send button on an email. Amen' is like the Send button on an email.
Steve Toltz quotes: The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life. The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.
Steve Toltz quotes: The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise! The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!
Steve Toltz quotes: Don't be afraid to have nothing. Don't be afraid to have nothing.
Steve Toltz quotes: There's nothing I would do again the same, and if given the opportunity, I would decline the opportunity. There's nothing I would do again the same, and if given the opportunity, I would decline the opportunity.
Steve Toltz quotes: People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know. 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 quotes: It's important to always take sides. Both sides, It's important to always take sides. Both sides,
Steve Toltz quotes: We drank for another hour and I mutilated many of my most coherent thoughts by putting them into words. We drank for another hour and I mutilated many of my most coherent thoughts by putting them into words.
Steve Toltz quotes: There's freedom in looking crazy. There's freedom in looking crazy.
Steve Toltz quotes: Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them. Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
Steve Toltz quotes: She always had the outward appearance of indifference, which I suspect is the real secret to longevity. That or a genuine desire to die. 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 quotes: It's rare to get so attached to another human being in adulthood. It's rare to get so attached to another human being in adulthood.
Steve Toltz quotes: I felt an attack of my most chronic illness - the pain of missing out. I felt an attack of my most chronic illness - the pain of missing out.
Steve Toltz quotes: A life strategy of minimizing regrets only winds up guaranteeing you suffer the maximum. A life strategy of minimizing regrets only winds up guaranteeing you suffer the maximum.
Steve Toltz quotes: Love is hard work. Love is hard work.
Steve Toltz quotes: 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. 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.
Steve Toltz quotes: I resisted a strong impulse to pluck out my eye and show it to them. I resisted a strong impulse to pluck out my eye and show it to them.
Steve Toltz quotes: Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos. Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos.
Steve Toltz quotes: I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it. I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.
Steve Toltz quotes: There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read. There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read.
Steve Toltz quotes: We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way. We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way.
Steve Toltz quotes: 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. 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.
Steve Toltz quotes: I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
Steve Toltz quotes: I couldn't get my head around it. She'd lied to me! She had lied to me! Me! I was supposed to be the liar in this relationship! I couldn't get my head around it. She'd lied to me! She had lied to me! Me! I was supposed to be the liar in this relationship!
Steve Toltz quotes: We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable. We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

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