"Mother went out again tonight, looking like a…" — John Kennedy Toole
"Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan."
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44 Quotes by John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole has 44 quotes on this site.
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The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be…
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The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.
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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…
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I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my…
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The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
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It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we…
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...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a…
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It will all end very badly, Gus
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Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was…
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Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
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When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
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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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More Courtesan Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are…
— Pietro Aretino
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I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard…
— Unknown Author
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It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
— Mary Renault
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It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to…
— Julian Barnes
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to…
— Jacqueline Carey
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has…
— Honore de Balzac
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You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of…
— Anne Stuart
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How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.”…
— Sarah MacLean
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Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the…
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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