Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?

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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.

Steve Toltz

Mots clés self-discovery self-awareness



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That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.

Steve Toltz


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We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

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There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West

Steve Toltz


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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.

Steve Toltz

Mots clés relationships regret



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

Steve Toltz

Mots clés humor time suspense anticipation relativity



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[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.

Steve Toltz

Mots clés love human-condition fatherly-advice



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

Steve Toltz

Mots clés relationships



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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.

Steve Toltz

Mots clés humor relationships broken-heart



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