Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do that. Steve Toltz More Quotes by Steve Toltz More Quotes From Steve Toltz 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 dozen love-you might Friendships are an unforseeable burden. Steve Toltz burden I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it. Steve Toltz demand thinking … 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 jehovah memories looks Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. Steve Toltz pessimism optimism laughing Don't be afraid to have nothing. Steve Toltz Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. Steve Toltz blame parent kids 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 focus artist natural To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility. Steve Toltz responsibility children 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 vegas children looks Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them. Steve Toltz burning people thinking 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-out book thinking Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. Steve Toltz animal water thinking We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. Steve Toltz men two way ...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 environmental hate sports 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 special writing book ...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch. Steve Toltz kitsch rainbow ifs 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 memories past thinking 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 shrubs bangs office 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 believe book
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