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John Kennedy Toole – amerykański pisarz z Nowego Orleanu, autor powieści Sprzysiężenie osłów .

Był nauczycielem uniwersyteckim. Popełnił samobójstwo , a jego powieść wydano pośmiertnie . Za jego życia wydawnictwo Simon and Schuster odrzuciło rękopis.

Sprzedano 1,5 miliona egzemplarzy tej książki w 18 językach. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Grudzień 1937 – 26. Marzec 1969
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John Kennedy Toole: Cytaty po angielsku

“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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John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

“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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John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”

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Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”

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John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Wariant: ... I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”

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John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

“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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Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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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
Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces (1980, posthumous)

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

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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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 A Confederacy of Dunces

Źródło: 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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Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

“Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!”

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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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Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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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Źródło: A Confederacy of Dunces

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

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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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 książka The Neon Bible

Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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 A Confederacy of Dunces

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