TOP 20 John Kennedy Toole Quotes

TOP 20 John Kennedy Toole Quotes.
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“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:00)
“A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:07)
“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:14)
“Stop!? I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:21)
“I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:28)
“I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he’s found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:35)
“This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:42)
“Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:49)
“Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”
- John Kennedy Toole (00:56)
“Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:03)
“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:10)
“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:17)
“I refuse to “look up.” Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man’s fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:24)
“Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:31)
“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:38)
“Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:45)
“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:52)
“It will all end very badly, Gus.”
- John Kennedy Toole (01:59)
“Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen.”
- John Kennedy Toole (02:06)
“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
- John Kennedy Toole (02:13)
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