"The only excursion of my life outside of……" — John Kennedy Toole

The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me… - John Kennedy Toole

"The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive."

— John Kennedy Toole

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — Charles Baudelaire
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. — William Bernbach
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. — Ruben Blades
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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving… — Leo Buscaglia
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. — Thomas Carlyle
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel… — Noam Chomsky
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum… — Hillary Clinton
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frédéric Amiel
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people. — Louis D. Brandeis
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in… — Winston Churchill

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