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• Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Jail, Soul, Mind

  John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  One Day, Details, Life Is

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.253, LSU Press

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

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  Dunces, Fortuna

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.82, LSU Press

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• Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

  John Kennedy Toole

  Capricious, Fortuna

  John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”

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• It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Nice, Fate, Treatment

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.558, LSU Press

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

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  Soul, Said, Canned Food

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.31, LSU Press

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• I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Christian, Religious, Book

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “The Neon Bible”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Beach, Night, Anxiety

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.114, Dubois Publishing

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• The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Heart, Important, Age

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.11, LSU Press

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• Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Eye, Abortion, Mind

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.55, Dubois Publishing

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• Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Mother, Tonight, Courtesans

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• Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Roots, Intellectual, Odor

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  Heart, New Orleans, Cities

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.15, LSU Press

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• 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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  Father, Weak, Results

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.161, Dubois Publishing

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• Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

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  Steps, Century, Brutal

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.580, LSU Press

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• Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Insanity, Pants, Proud

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.551, LSU Press

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• I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

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  Mother, Said, Cooks

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.31, LSU Press

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• 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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  Mother, Athlete, Way

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.152, LSU Press

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• ... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces

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  Dog, New Orleans, Golden Days

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.349, LSU Press

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• I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Morality, Found

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.391, LSU Press

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• Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.

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  Tired, Men, Average

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.284, LSU Press

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• Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

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  Mother, Believe, Believe In Me

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.305, LSU Press

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• It will all end very badly, Gus

  John Kennedy Toole

  Gus, Ends

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.547, LSU Press

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• Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

  John Kennedy Toole

  New Orleans

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.476, LSU Press

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