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John Kennedy Toole 28
American novelist 1937–1969Related quotes
“When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.”
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)
“The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite.”
No. 5, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.”
Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 114
“Better to doubt methodically than to think capriciously.”
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
From Fifth Avenue Up
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)
“A consistent man believes in Destiny — a capricious man in Chance.”
Book VI, Chapter 22.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)