"The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive."

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Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press

John Kennedy Toole

#New Orleans Quotes #Hands Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.”
“When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life.”
“My favorite kinds of comedies are ones that hopefully make you laugh a lot, but ultimately make you care about something in the end, even if it's just a little bit.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”

Source : Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.289, Cambridge University Press
“Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.”
“You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could see warming of more than 9 degrees F by 2100 - more than twice earlier projections.”
“Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.”
“I have no religion,â€™ says Borneau, â€˜but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.â€™ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?”

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