John Kennedy Toole Short Quotes

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When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

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Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

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Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

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Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

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My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

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I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

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Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

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""With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy."

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Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

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The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

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It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

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You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

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

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Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

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I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

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Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

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I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

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My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

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