Top 27 Tosches Quotes
#1. Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.
Nick Tosches
#4. It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.
Nick Tosches
#6. To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Nick Tosches
#7. Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Nick Tosches
#8. An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#9. Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
Nick Tosches
#10. One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
Damon Galgut
#12. When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
Nick Tosches
#13. For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
Nick Tosches
#14. You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.
Tim Allen
#15. I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
Neil Jordan
#16. We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#17. The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.
Nick Tosches
#18. Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.
Nick Tosches
#19. The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
Nick Tosches
#21. Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.
Noah Hawley
#22. As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.
Nick Tosches
#23. For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
Frantz Fanon
#25. There's some of Romeo's romance in me ... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..
Leonardo DiCaprio
#26. Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.
Nick Tosches
#27. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
Nick Tosches
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