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

—  John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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