"Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale."

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Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.41, LSU Press

John Kennedy Toole

#Soul Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Lows Quotes

“Sometimes when Im nervous, thats when the most interesting things happen.”
“People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.”
“This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.”
“I'm really bad at writing jokes.”

Source : "Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton: The WTF Q&A". Interview with Marc Maron, www.esquire.com. September 12, 2011.
“It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.”
“Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.”
“I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.”

Source : "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.
“I'll be in #‎ Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location hunting. I want to lock the locations before Christmas as everyone goes into vacation mode after that.”

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