"I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in……" — Steve Toltz
"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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43 Quotes by Steve Toltz
Steve Toltz has 43 quotes on this site.
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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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After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't…
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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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More Beast Quotes
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
— A. S. Byatt
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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