John Kennedy Toole Quotes

• siempre se puede distinguir a los empleados del gobierno por la vacante total que ocupa el espacio donde la mayoría de las otras personas tienen cara.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Government, Space, People

  A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.

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• 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Food, Writing, Cheesy

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.9, LSU Press

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• Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Soul, Humanity, Lows

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press

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• 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  United States, Needs, Taste

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.23, Dubois Publishing

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• 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  School, Long, Gone

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

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  Pares

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.185, LSU Press

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• Evito esa sombría primera hora de la jornada laboral durante la cual mis sentidos y mi cuerpo, aún aletargados, hacen de cada tarea una penitencia. Me doy cuenta de que, al llegar más tarde, el trabajo que realizo es de mucha más calidad.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Good Morning, Quality, Arriving

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.149, LSU Press

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• 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Fall, Men, Optimism

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.89, LSU Press

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• 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Crush, Divinity, Wheels

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Work, Mean, Boys

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.76, LSU Press

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  Work, Today, Employers

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.237, LSU Press

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• with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Taste, Chaos, Medieval

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press

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• Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Mind, Tears, Cry

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.411, LSU Press

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• So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Circles, Principles, Wheels

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Aquí huele fatal'. Bueno, ¿qué esperabas? El cuerpo humano, cuando está encerrado, produce ciertos olores que tendemos a olvidar en esta época de desodorantes y otras perversiones. En realidad, encuentro la atmósfera de esta habitación bastante reconfortante. Schiller necesitaba el olor de las manzanas pudriéndose en su escritorio para poder escribir. Yo también tengo mis necesidades. Tal vez recuerden que Mark Twain prefería tumbarse supinamente en la cama mientras componía esos esfuerzos bastante anticuados y aburridos que los eruditos contemporáneos intentan demostrar que tienen sentido. La veneración de Mark Twain es una de las raíces de nuestro actual estancamiento intelectual.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Meaningful, Lying, Writing

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

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• The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.

  John Kennedy Toole

  New Orleans, Hands, Despair

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press

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• The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They make the other members of the society fearful. Every asylum in this nation is filled with poor souls who simply cannot stand lanolin, cellophane, plastic, television, and subdivisions.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Hair, People, Car

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.469, LSU Press

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• When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Brain, Cheese, Dip

  "A Confederacy of Dunces".

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• Entre nota y nota, había contemplado medios para destruir a Myrna Minkoff, pero no había llegado a ninguna conclusión satisfactoria. Su plan más prometedor consistía en sacar de la biblioteca un libro sobre municiones, construir una bomba y enviársela a Myrna en papel normal. Entonces recordó que le habían retirado el carné de la biblioteca.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Book, Mean, Library

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.322, LSU Press

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• The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

  John Kennedy Toole

  Dog, Sex, Desire

  A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.7, pt.1.

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• 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Denial, Century, Function

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  Fear, Horror, God Knows

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• You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, 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.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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

  John Kennedy Toole

  Attitude, Hands, Talking

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.89, Dubois Publishing

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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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