--- title: "2 Everybody Thought Quotes By John Kennedy Toole" description: "2 Everybody Thought quotes by John Kennedy Toole. Plus more from John Kennedy Toole and more Everybody Thought sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/john-kennedy-toole-4650_hate_if-you-were-different-from-anybody-in-to_661454.png" --- > [“If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. That's why everybody was so much alike. The way they talked, what they did, what they liked, what they hated. If somebody got to hate something and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/if-you-were-different-from-anybody-in-town-you-had-to-get-out-that-s/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/john-kennedy-toole-4650_hate_if-you-were-different-from-anybody-in-to_661454.png) > [“But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they had to get together to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/but-i-knew-the-way-the-people-in-the-town-thought-about-things-they/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed6/john-kennedy-toole-4650_christianity_but-i-knew-the-way-the-people-in-the-tow_2439174.jpg) ## More by John Kennedy Toole > [“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/myrna-was-not-astigmatic-the-lenses-were-clear-glass-she-wore-the/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/she-ran-into-the-bathroom-and-powdered-her-face-and-the-front-of-her/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/is-it-the-part-of-the-police-department-to-harass-me-when-this-city/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/employers-sense-in-me-a-denial-of-their-values-they-fear-me-i-suspect/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/do-i-believe-the-total-perversion-that-i-am-witnessing/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/between-notes-he-had-contemplated-means-of-destroying-myrna-minkoff/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate façade there may be a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?" "Who?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/i-suspect-that-beneath-your-offensively-and-vulgarly-effeminate-fa/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/i-am-at-the-moment-writing-a-lengthy-indictment-against-our-century/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/in-my-private-apocalypse-he-will-be-impaled-upon-his-own-nightstick/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/psycho-the-woman-s-senile-we-had-to-stop-at-about-thirty-gas-stations/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/i-mingle-with-my-peers-or-no-one-and-since-i-have-no-peers-i-mingle/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool," he started again. "Night of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/hey-all-you-peoples-draggin-along-here-stop-and-come-stick-your-ass/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/schiller-needed-the-scent-of-apples-rotting-in-his-desk-in-order-to/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/every-difficult-work-presents-us-with-a-choice-of-whether-to-judge/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) > [“Had you ‘artists’ had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kennedy-toole/had-you-artists-had-a-part-in-the-decoration-of-the-sistine-chapel-it/) [John Kennedy Toole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kennedy-toole/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/everybody-thought/john-kennedy-toole/#itemlist", "name": "2 Everybody Thought Quotes By John Kennedy Toole", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. 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