Don't be afraid to have nothing. Steve Toltz More Quotes by Steve Toltz More Quotes From Steve Toltz Amen' is like the Send button on an email. Steve Toltz amenbuttonsemail You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated. Steve Toltz dozenlove-youmight Friendships are an unforseeable burden. Steve Toltz burden I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it. Steve Toltz demandthinking … she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless. Steve Toltz jehovahmemorieslooks Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. Steve Toltz pessimismoptimismlaughing Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. Steve Toltz blameparentkids There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the subconscious focus of their entire lives, it often is repeated. Steve Toltz focusartistnatural To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. Steve Toltz responsibilitychildren Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade. Steve Toltz vegaschildrenlooks Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them. Steve Toltz burningpeoplethinking I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are those just working out their obsessions. I think I'm a combination. I think, at least for these books, I'm going with fear. I've always been interested in fear. Fear is something I've dealt with in life, and I think it's the main motivating factor of everything, almost. From sex to politics. Steve Toltz work-outbookthinking Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. Steve Toltz animalwaterthinking We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. Steve Toltz mentwoway ...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own. Steve Toltz environmentalhatesports On the one hand I'm writing about somebody about whom I say in the book, "The only thing worse than being a statistic is being a statistical anomaly." So I'm writing about a particularly unlucky person. So that's a special type of hell, to be particularly unlucky. Steve Toltz specialwritingbook ...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. Steve Toltz kitschrainbowifs 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! Steve Toltz memoriespastthinking There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch. Steve Toltz shrubsbangsoffice We have this atomic idea of process where we want to believe that the creator of the book or the show had this whole brainy idea at the outset. As though there is something less about it if it comes out of the process of discovery. Steve Toltz believebook
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