"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!" — John Kennedy Toole
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"
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John Kennedy Toole
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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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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
— Richard Dawkins
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
— William Hazlitt
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
— Edward Gibbon
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Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
— Barbara Tuchman
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
— John Cheever
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his…
— Gerald Heaney
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how…
— Walter Bagehot
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an…
— William Hurt
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way…
— Nick Harkaway
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