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The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing a child or, you know, splitting up with your wife, because that's just life.
Steve Toltz
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Steve Toltz
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
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...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.
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Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.
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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 dont really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.
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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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Don't be afraid to have nothing.
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