Quotes by Steve Toltz

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… 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.

Jehovah

Looks

Memories

…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.

Environmental

Hate

Sports

…I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

Ifs

Kitsch

Rainbow

[I’ll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

Heart

Looks

Rain

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!

Memories

Past

Thinking

Amen’ is like the Send button on an email.

Amen

Buttons

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you’re just neurotic and uncomfortable.

Artist

Difficulty

Uncomfortable

Don’t be afraid to have nothing.

Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of an irrational fear because it’s something that can be avoided. The torturous part is that suffering can be avoided if you have good luck. That’s somewhat out of our hands, but is it? I don’t know. “Is bad luck self-harm by another name?”

Bad Luck

Good Luck

Suffering

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

Burden

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Air

Airplane

Amazed

Amen

Animal

Arbitrary

Art

Artist

Bad Luck

Bangs

Believe

Blame

Book

Bridges

Broken

Burden

Burning

Buttons

Character

Children

Crazy

Criminals

Demand

Deterioration

Difficulty

Done

Dozen

Dream

Easy

Effort

Empty

Endless

Enjoy

Environmental

Eye

Fake

Fall

Firsts

Focus

Games

Giving

Goal

Good Luck

Gun

Half

Hate

Havens

Heart

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Quotes by Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz

… 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.

…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.

…I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

[I’ll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.

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!

Amen’ is like the Send button on an email.

As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without that you’re just neurotic and uncomfortable.

Don’t be afraid to have nothing.

Friendships are an unforseeable burden.

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