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Don't be afraid to have nothing.

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Steve Toltz
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Stephen Toltz
Afraid
Nothing

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To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
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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.
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People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
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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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Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
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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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I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
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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.
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Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.
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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.
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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.
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Friendships are an unforseeable burden.
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Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
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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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Generally as a rule I am not. Unless I am super in love with a particular author, because I just want to read masterpieces. I just want to read one amazing book after another. As a completist you are generally reading the bad ones.
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We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.
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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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I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.
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