# John Kennedy Toole

- Quotes: 27
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kennedy-toole

## Books

- [A Confederacy of Dunces](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kennedy-toole/a-confederacy-of-dunces.md) — 27 quotes
- [The Neon Bible](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kennedy-toole/the-neon-bible.md) — 1 quote

## Recently added quotes

> "I do believe that I shall have another of these savories."

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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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> "Miss Trixie considers luncheon meat a rather toothsome delicacy."

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> "A new film featuring my favorite female star, whose recent circus musical excess stunned and overwhelmed me, is opening shortly at one of the downtown movie palaces. I must somehow get to see it. Only my wagon stands in the way. Her new film is billed as a 'sophisticated' comedy in which she must certainly reach new heights of perversion and blasphemy."

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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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> "With the breakdown of the Medieval system, the gods of Chaos, Lunacy, and Bad Taste gained ascendancy."

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> "Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius bellowed over the crowd in front of the store. "This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected by graft."

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> Ignatius...stared raptly at the previews of coming attractions. One of the films looked bad enough, he thought, to bring him back to the Prytania in a few days.

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> "The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss."

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> Ignatius...noted that several of the actors, the composer, the director, the hair designer, and the assistant producer were all people whose efforts had offended him at various times in the past.

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> "What degenerate produced this abortion?"

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> "That fat mother got him the green cap."

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