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#1

“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, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: late, morning, work

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#2

“Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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#3

“My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: ignatius-j-reilly

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#4

“Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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#5

“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: humorous, ignatious-j-reilly, new-orleans

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#6

“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: fear

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#7

“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: absurd, ass, attitude, contempt, curmudgeon, hilarious, intellectual, meatsacks, mouthbreathers, pompous, pronouncements, satire, sheep

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#8

“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, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing

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#9

“Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: humor

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#10

“Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: humor

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#11

“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: humor, ignatius-j-reilly, new-orleans

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#12

“This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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#13

“Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials. The world will someday get me on some ludicrous pretext; I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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#14

“Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!' Ignatius screamed savagely.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: humor

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#15

“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

tags: confederacy-of-dunces, mental-hospital

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#16

“I was appalled that so meaningless a person would dare such effrontery.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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#17

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

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#18

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

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#19

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

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#20

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

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#21

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: men, mountains, rocks

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#22

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#23

“High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.”
― Frank Portman, King Dork

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#24

“Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.”
― Frank Portman, King Dork

tags: bully, cringe, high-school, nickname, wince

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