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Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.
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This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!
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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.
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You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
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It would bring all of my latent anxieties to a head, and the result, I fear, would be very ugly indeed.
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I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.
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Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.
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Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?
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You must realize the fear and hatred which my weltanschauung instills in people.
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Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.
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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.
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Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico.
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Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her!
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Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
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Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.
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Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!
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Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.
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Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.
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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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With the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
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Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing?
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In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.
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What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.
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It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.
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I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements.
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When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.
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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.
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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.
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I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside.
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Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake.
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I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.
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It will all end very badly, Gus
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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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Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do.
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To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.
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I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.
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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.
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I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it.
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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.
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He resented my worldview rather actively.
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Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.
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All signs were pointing upward; his wheel was revolving skyward.
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Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.
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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. — John Kennedy Toole
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.
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Oh, shut up your little pussymouth, you mongoloid.
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Fortuna, that vicious slut.
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Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously.
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The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
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Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.
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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.
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Please, go away!" Ignatius screamed. "You're shattering my religious ecstasy.
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I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled
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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.
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Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen
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Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.
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I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked."Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically.
"She burns. — John Kennedy Toole
This...is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds.
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Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!' Ignatius screamed savagely.
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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.
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My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
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I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.
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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.
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I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,
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Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.
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The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.
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Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
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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.
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The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
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When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
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