John Kennedy Toole Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
It would bring all of my latent anxieties to a head, and the result, I fear, would be very ugly indeed.
I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.
Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?
Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.
Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico.
Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her!
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
With the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.
It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.
Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.
What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.
Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake.
Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
Apparently I am pushing a jinx about the streets. I am certain that I can do better with some other wagon. A new cart, a new start.
Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.
Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.
This guy was a real Pscyho' Mr. Levy said.
'To you character is a psychosis, integrity is a complex. I've heard it all before.
'To you character is a psychosis, integrity is a complex. I've heard it all before.
No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.
Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously.
Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.
You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.
I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked.
"Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically.
"She burns.
"Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically.
"She burns.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds.
I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.
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.
Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
Employers sense in me a denial of their values ... they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.