John Kennedy Toole - City Quotes

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Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

John Kennedy Toole

"Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius bellowed over the crowd in front of the store. "This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected by graft."

John Kennedy Toole