"I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one."

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Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.185, LSU Press

John Kennedy Toole

“In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.”

Source : Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books
“When my money starts coming in and I'm blessed to see an eye doctor every week, twice a week, I'm going to do it.”
“As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.”
“I cannot afford to waste my time making money”
“Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.”
“If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.”
“I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.”
“Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.”

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