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Gavin Breeden
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“Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“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.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
― The Shooting Star
― The Shooting Star
“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. ”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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