"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."

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Source : "A Confederacy of Dunces".

John Kennedy Toole

#Food Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cheesy Quotes

“You don't need to get anywhere or be anything more than the beautiful soul that you already are.”
“Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!”

Source : Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. August 8, 2011.
“The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.”
“If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.”
“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Source : "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.
“We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.”
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.44, The New Press

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