"I was getting tired about what the preacher……" — John Kennedy Toole
"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."
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John Kennedy Toole
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44 Quotes by John Kennedy Toole
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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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