Quotes by Steve Toltz

About Steve Toltz:

Steve Toltz is an Australian novelist.
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We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.

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

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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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It's always something here - if there isn't a riot, then someone's usually trying to escape. The wasted effort helps me see the positives of imprisonment. Unlike those pulling their hair out in good society, here we don't have to feel ashamed of our ...

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When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

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I dug out an old brown suitcase and threw a few clothes into it, then looked around my bedroom for memorabilia, but stopped when I remembered that the purpose of memorabilia is to trigger memory. I didn't want to be lugging my memories all over the p...

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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 have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

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Are you listening, Jasper? Sometimes you'll be walking in the city late at night, and a woman walking in front of you will spin her head around and then cross the street simply because some members of your gender rape women and molest children!

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The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

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Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

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Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

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Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

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I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

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The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

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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 return your affections might be exciting in books, but in life it’s unbearably boring. I’ll tell you what’...

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There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

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There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

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I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

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I haven't been part of the criminal world.

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Author Bio

  • NameSteve Toltz
  • DescriptionAustralian writer
  • Born1972
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter