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Steve Toltz Quotes

born 1972 Australia

Steve Toltz (born 1972 in Sydney) is an Australian novelist.

Australia
Novelists

Also known as: A Fraction of the Whole

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The denial of death rushes people into an early grave, and if you are not careful, they will take you with them.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Cancer thrives on broken hearts; it is a vulture waiting for you to give up on human warmth.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

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

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

The thing that makes a man go crazy isn't loneliness or suffering after all - it's being kept in a state of perpetual dread.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Even ugly people know beauty when they don't see it.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

There's almost no situation you can get yourself into when you don't want what the other guy has.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Denouncing civilization takes its toll when you continue to exist within it.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

The world is getting hotter, the ice caps are melting, because man keeps saying to nature, Hey, our whole idea of a cozy future is to have jobs. That's all we've got planned.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

When people think your days are numbered, they're really very nice to you. It's only when you're trying to get on in the world that they bring their claws out.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

That's the problem with people who suffer right in your face. They can't so much as scratch their noses without its being poignant.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

I think all people on their deathbeds should not forgive themselves for not committing suicide, even one day earlier. To let yourself be murdered by Nature's hand is the only real apathy there is.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Democracy in crime was turning out no different from democracies everywhere: a sublime idea in theory, soiled by the reality that deep down nobody really believes that all men are created equal.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry their suffering on their faces. Also bitterness, if there's room.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Does anyone go to the grave satisfied? The satisfaction can't exist as long as there's one itch left to scratch. And I don't care who you are, there's always an itch.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Confronting your own assassin is a tricky business; you don't want to trigger your own murder just for the sake of getting something off your chest.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

That's the wonderful thing about democracy: you can hold public office legitimately while still being despised by 49.9 percent of the suspicious eyes on the street.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Most of my life I never worked out whether to pity, ignore, adore, judge, or murder my father. His mystifying behavior left me wavering right up until the end.

A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steve Toltz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.