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Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you? but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

Steve Toltz
Children, Jumping, Bridges
Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.529, Spiegel & Grau

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

Steve Toltz
Children, Responsibility
Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.196, Spiegel & Grau

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
Children, Writing, Wife
Source: www.guernicamag.com

Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.

Steve Toltz
Children, Vegas, Looks
Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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