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"To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility."
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Steve ToltzLets not beat around the bush: human feelings can be ridiculous. Think — Steve Toltz
"Lets not beat around the bush: human feelings can be ridiculous. Thinking back to that moment, to how I felt at the realization that my stepfather was slowly murdering me, I did not feel anger. I did not feel outrage. I felt hurt. Thats right. That this man who Id lived with my whole life, the man who married my mother and was for all practical purposes my father, was maliciously poisoning me to death hurt my feelings. Ridiculous!"
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Steve Toltz is an Australian novelist.
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"Denouncing civilization takes its toll when you continue to exist within it."
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"After this incident I got into the bad habit of treating her with courtesy and respect. Courtesy and respect are advisable when addressing a judge right before he sentences you, but in a relationship they signify discomfort."
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"Its too late now," he said. "You cant stop a tidal wave of hatred once its reached the shore."
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"The thing that makes a man go crazy isnt loneliness or suffering after all - its being kept in a state of perpetual dread."
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"No one listened to me. Caroline and I stood together as they dragged Terry away to a mental asylum. I looked at my parents incredulously, at their inexorably tepid souls. All I could do was uselessly shake a clenched fist and think how people are so eager to become slaves that its unbelievable. Christ. Sometimes they throw off their freedom so quickly, youd think it was burning them."
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