People Quotes by John Kennedy Toole

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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…

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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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The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are…

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“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.”

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“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her…

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“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…

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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…

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“Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?”

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Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a…

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“I suspect that beneath your offensively and vulgarly effeminate façade there may be a soul of sorts. Have you read widely in Boethius?" "Who? Oh, heavens no. I never even read newspapers." "Then you must begin a reading program immediately so that you may understand the crises of our age," Ignatius said solemnly. "Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius,…

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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…

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“In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.”

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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…

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