Top 70 John Kennedy Toole Quotes (2024 Update)
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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Clean, hard-working, dependable, quiet type.′ Good God! What kind of monster is this that they want. I am afraid that I could never work for a concern with a worldview like that.”

51. “Clean, hard-working, dependable, quiet type.′ Good God! What kind of monster is this that they want. I am afraid that I could never work for a concern with a worldview like that.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. He could not even remember what he had written in some of the tablets, and he realized that several were filled principally with doodling. However, Ignatius thought calmly, Rome was not built in a day.”

52. “In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. He could not even remember what he had written in some of the tablets, and he realized that several were filled principally with doodling. However, Ignatius thought calmly, Rome was not built in a day.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss. By the time we had left the swamps and reached those rolling hills near Baton Rouge, I was getting afraid that some rural rednecks might toss bombs at the bus. They love to attack vehicles, which are a symbol of progress, I guess.”

53. “Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss. By the time we had left the swamps and reached those rolling hills near Baton Rouge, I was getting afraid that some rural rednecks might toss bombs at the bus. They love to attack vehicles, which are a symbol of progress, I guess.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don’t want to do.”

54. “Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don’t want to do.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.”

55. “She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.”

56. “When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “I don’t drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.”

57. “I don’t drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Oh, my God!” Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. “What an egregious insult to good taste.”

58. “Oh, my God!” Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. “What an egregious insult to good taste.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “The heart is important at any age, I’m afraid.”

59. “The heart is important at any age, I’m afraid.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “How come God has to make it so tough for you?” “We must not question His ways,” Ignatius said. “Maybe not, but I still don’t get it.” “The writings of Boethius may give you some insight.” “I read Father Keller and Billy Graham in the paper every single day.” “Oh, my God!” Ignatius spluttered. “No wonder you are so lost.”

60. “How come God has to make it so tough for you?” “We must not question His ways,” Ignatius said. “Maybe not, but I still don’t get it.” “The writings of Boethius may give you some insight.” “I read Father Keller and Billy Graham in the paper every single day.” “Oh, my God!” Ignatius spluttered. “No wonder you are so lost.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don’t want to do. And if ever there was something I didn’t want to do, this was surely it: to deal with the mother of a dead novelist and, worst of all, to have to read a manuscript that she said was great, and that, as it turned out, was a badly smeared, scarcely readable carbon.”

61. “Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don’t want to do. And if ever there was something I didn’t want to do, this was surely it: to deal with the mother of a dead novelist and, worst of all, to have to read a manuscript that she said was great, and that, as it turned out, was a badly smeared, scarcely readable carbon.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That’s one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.”

62. “What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That’s one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “What is your opinion of a society that considers “Turkey in the Straw” to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?”

63. “What is your opinion of a society that considers “Turkey in the Straw” to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.”

64. “Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “It would bring all of my latent anxieties to a head, and the result, I fear, would be very ugly indeed.”

65. “It would bring all of my latent anxieties to a head, and the result, I fear, would be very ugly indeed.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...”

66. “Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not grasping what is going on. Montaigne encouraged us to blame the author. An incomprehensible prose-style is likely to have resulted more from laziness than cleverness; what reads easily is rarely so written...”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside.”

67. “I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bed springs as they reached a crescendo as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg’s ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King.”

68. “She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bed springs as they reached a crescendo as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg’s ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I’ll pour water on her.”

69. “I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I’ll pour water on her.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “This... is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.”

70. “This... is a new crutch to help you make excuses for your meaningless, impotent existence.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “After all, I do not believe that one must necessarily scrape bottom, as it were, in order to view his society subjectively. Rather than moving vertically downward, one may move horizontally outward toward a point of sufficient detachment where a modicum of creature comforts are not necessarily precluded.”

71. “After all, I do not believe that one must necessarily scrape bottom, as it were, in order to view his society subjectively. Rather than moving vertically downward, one may move horizontally outward toward a point of sufficient detachment where a modicum of creature comforts are not necessarily precluded.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor’s smock are creaking ominously.”

72. “Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor’s smock are creaking ominously.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “No wonder you’ve turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.”

73. “No wonder you’ve turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.”

74. “She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills.”

75. “Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Oh my God! You’re wearing your bowling shoes! Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child’s sickbed.”

76. “Oh my God! You’re wearing your bowling shoes! Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child’s sickbed.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “The grandeur of my physique, the complexity of my worldview, the decency and taste implicit in my carriage, the grace with which I function in the mire of today’s world-all of these at once confuse and astound Clyde. Now he has relegated me to working in the French Quarter, an area which houses every vice that man has ever conceived in his wildest aberrations, including, I would imagine, several modern variants made possible through the wonders of science.”

77. “The grandeur of my physique, the complexity of my worldview, the decency and taste implicit in my carriage, the grace with which I function in the mire of today’s world-all of these at once confuse and astound Clyde. Now he has relegated me to working in the French Quarter, an area which houses every vice that man has ever conceived in his wildest aberrations, including, I would imagine, several modern variants made possible through the wonders of science.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Everyone I know has a fine big sedan,” Mrs. Levy said as she got into the little car. “Not you. No. You have to own a kid’s car that costs more than a Cadillac and blows my hair all around.”

78. “Everyone I know has a fine big sedan,” Mrs. Levy said as she got into the little car. “Not you. No. You have to own a kid’s car that costs more than a Cadillac and blows my hair all around.”

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John Kennedy Toole Quote: “Long years of practice and usage had made her rump an unusually versatile and dexterous thing.”

79. “Long years of practice and usage had made her rump an unusually versatile and dexterous thing.”

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