John Kennedy Toole citations (32 citations)

Ch. 2, section V http://books.google.com/books?id=xXxWIS_KF5gC&q=%22When+Fortuna+spins+you+downward+go+out+to+a+movie+and+get+more+out+of+life%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous)

“Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“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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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 9, p. 226

“A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

A Confederacy of Dunces

“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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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“… When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 2, opening line

“employers sense in me a denial of their values… they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“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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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“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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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 7, p. 184

“The war had been on for quite a while now when Poppa got his notice from the draft. He didn't have to go, but he more or less enlisted. Mother and I and Aunt Mae went down to the train to see him off, and when he left he kissed Mother and he cried, and I'd never seen a man cry before. The train pulled away, and we stood there and watched it go, and Mother kept looking long after it had passed around the hill.”

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John Kennedy Toole livre La Bible de néon

Source: The Neon Bible, Ch. 4, opening paragraph.

“"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."”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 1, p. 21

“Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?”

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John Kennedy Toole La Conjuration des imbéciles

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."
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous), Ch. 1, p. 21