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John Kennedy Toole28
American novelist 1937–1969Related quotes
“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&q=%22When+Fortuna+spins+you+downward+go+out+to+a+movie+and+get+more+out+of+life%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous)
“The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
“I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.”
John Donne book Holy Sonnets
No. 5, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”
William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale
Source: The Winter's Tale
“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.”
Yann Martel (1963) Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi
Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 114
“Better to doubt methodically than to think capriciously.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at his inauguration as Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh (6 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 83.
1925
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist
From Fifth Avenue Up
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)
“A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book VI, Chapter 22.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)