"with the breakdown of the medieval system, the……" — John Kennedy Toole
"with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy."
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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 and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic…
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The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and…
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Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human…
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at…
— Rose Macaulay
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To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the…
— John C. Calhoun
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The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The…
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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain…
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During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain…
— John Nelson Darby
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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's…
— Taylor Hackford
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Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and…
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There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over…
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