"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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Source : A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.7, pt.1.

John Kennedy Toole

#Dog Quotes #Sex Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.”
“Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.”

Source : "What’s the Matter With MOOCs?". www.chronicle.com. July 6, 2012.
“I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.”
“Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.”
“If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
“Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.”
“Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.”

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