"After all, memory may be the only thing……" — Steve Toltz
"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 ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!"
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43 Quotes by Steve Toltz
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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…
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Amen' is like the Send button on an email.
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Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
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I haven't been part of the criminal world,
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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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The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough…
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I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless…
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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?…
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Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling,…
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That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white…
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I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
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