"Or about how when you're a child, to……" — Steve Toltz
"Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?"
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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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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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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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