“Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“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.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“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.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“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.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
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