Steve Toltz Quotes

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• There’s nothing wonderful or interesting about unrequited love. I think it’s shitty, just plain shitty. To love someone who doesn’t return your affections might be…
• Amen' is like the Send button on an email.
• Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
• I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
• I haven't been part of the criminal world,
• After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at…
• Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.
• The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor…
• 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…
• 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…
• Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be…
• That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's…
• I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
• The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
• We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.
• There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their…
• Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I…
• [I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where…
• People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
• Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

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