Steve Toltz Quotes

• I didn’t think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

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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.

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• To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

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• Love is hard work.

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• Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

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• The world’s not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise!

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• A city is a strange place for dawn. The sun just can’t seem to make any headway in the cold streets.

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• People are not mysterious because they never shut up!

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• The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.

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• 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.

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• The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.

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• When it comes to taking your own life, preparation is procrastination.

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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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• To my horror principles have wormed their way into fabric of my being.

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• Sometimes they throw off their freedom so quickly, you’d think it was burning them.

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• There’s freedom in looking crazy.

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• Friendships are an unforeseeable burden.

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• The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

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• Don’t be afraid to have nothing.

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• Sometimes I think the human animal doesn’t really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

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Steve Toltz (24)

Birth:	1972
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Novelist

About

Steve Toltz is an Australian novelist.Toltz attended Knox Grammar School, Killara High School and graduated from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1994. Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona, and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher, and screenwriter.

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