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Oh, New Orleans is such freedom. — John Kennedy Toole

This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion! — John Kennedy Toole

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

You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. — John Kennedy Toole

It would bring all of my latent anxieties to a head, and the result, I fear, would be very ugly indeed. — John Kennedy Toole

I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box. — John Kennedy Toole

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

Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven? — John Kennedy Toole

You must realize the fear and hatred which my weltanschauung instills in people. — John Kennedy Toole

Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico. — John Kennedy Toole

Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her! — John Kennedy Toole

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? — John Kennedy Toole

Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. — John Kennedy Toole

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite! — John Kennedy Toole

Martyrdom is meaningless in our age. — John Kennedy Toole

Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind. — John Kennedy Toole

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. — John Kennedy Toole

With the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. — John Kennedy Toole

Do I believe the total perversion that I am witnessing? — John Kennedy Toole

In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick. — John Kennedy Toole

What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems. — John Kennedy Toole

It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you. — John Kennedy Toole

I really don't have the time to discuss the errors of your value judgements. — John Kennedy Toole

When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. — John Kennedy Toole

I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. — Tamara Feldman

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. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside. — John Kennedy Toole

Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake. — John Kennedy Toole

I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery. — John Kennedy Toole

It will all end very badly, Gus — John Kennedy Toole

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul. — John Kennedy Toole

Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do. — John Kennedy Toole

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex. — John Kennedy Toole

I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

He resented my worldview rather actively. — John Kennedy Toole

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me. — John Kennedy Toole

All signs were pointing upward; his wheel was revolving skyward. — John Kennedy Toole

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

Oh, shut up your little pussymouth, you mongoloid. — John Kennedy Toole

Fortuna, that vicious slut. — John Kennedy Toole

Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously. — John Kennedy Toole

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. — John Kennedy Toole

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

Please, go away!" Ignatius screamed. "You're shattering my religious ecstasy. — John Kennedy Toole

I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled — John Kennedy Toole

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. — John Kennedy Toole

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen — John Kennedy Toole

Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — John Kennedy Toole

a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds. — John Kennedy Toole

Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!' Ignatius screamed savagely. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail. — John Kennedy Toole

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. — John Kennedy Toole

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

I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama, — John Kennedy Toole

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale. — John Kennedy Toole

The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid. — John Kennedy Toole

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. — John Kennedy Toole

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. — John Kennedy Toole

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts? — John Kennedy Toole

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. — John Kennedy Toole