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| 4241114 | The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| fd8d704 | And so each of the passersby on this corner, every scruffy, oversize, undersize, weird, fat, or bony or limping or muttering or foreign-looking, or green-haired punk-strutting, threatening, crazy, angry, inconsolable person I see . . . is a New Yorker, which is to say as native to this diaspora as I am, and part of our great sputtering experiment in a universalist society proposing a world without nations where anyone can be anything and th.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 030277f | Goldman sent off a letter to Evelyn: I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. Carrying his newspaper with your picture the laborer goes home to his wife, an exhausted workhorse with the veins standing out in her legs, and he dreams not of justice but of being rich. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| be8f9de | When the Great War came he would wage it with the fury of the affronted. Neither Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin, who was to die in a dogfight over France, nor the old Bull Moose himself, who was to die in grief not long thereafter, would survive Wilson's abhorrence of war. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 529b34d | Therefore the radical wastes his opportunity if he seriously considers the issues of his trial. If he is found guilty it is the ruling power's decision that he cannot be tolerated. If he is found innocent it is the ruling powers's decision that he need not be feared. The radical must not argue his innocence, for the trial is not of his making; he must argue his ideas. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| b668e9e | Good morning, class. Good morning, red of face and scowl of mouth. Good morning, starched of shirt and waved of hair. This morning we will speak of consciousness. Where does it come from? What does it do with itself? Does it connive? Does it seek advantages? How does it learn its ways--as billions of neurons self-conceiving in neural circuits, revise, adjust, reorganize, multiply responding behaviorally to outer-world creature experience--i.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| ad03654 | Look do you see that poem?" she said suddenly, pointing. | Anne of Avonlea | ||
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| ca9371a | lbth khr chndny b anh ndshtm, chr khh mn jz b hmty khwd grm nmygyrm w z anjyy khh hmtyy ndrm b khsy hm grm nmygyrm. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 1e1e98b | Saltando vigorosamente de costado, Ignatius percibio que ascendia por su garganta un eructo, pero cuando abrio esperanzado la boca, solo emitio un leve soplido. Aun asi, los saltos tuvieron ciertos efectos fisiologicos. Ignatius acaricio la modesta ereccion que apuntaba en las sabanas. La atrapo con la mano y se quedo quieto intentando decidir que hacer. En esta posicion, con el camison rojo de franela alrededor del pecho y el vientre inmen.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 356abda | When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. -- John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 86af4ab | A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. | opening-lines | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 48dbff9 | Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| f9b146b | Fortuna wished to make amends. Somehow she had summoned and flushed Myrna minx from a subway tube, from some picket line, from the pungent bed of some Eurasian existentialist, from the hands of some epileptic Negro Buddhist, from the verbose midst of a group therapy session. | fortuna making-amends | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 96c5f83 | To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex. | integrity | John Kennedy Toole | |
| f0a4615 | The suicide John Kennedy Toole is probably the most famous True Outsider, though it pains me to admit that I regard A Confederacy of Dunces as one of the most overrated novels ever published. I am glad, all the same, that it was published, if only for the moments of reflection it caused those who rejected it to suffer. | Tom Bissell | ||
| 289f29a | One of his students was an intense young man who was interested in writing fiction. My father lent him some books and talked to him for hours about the art of the novel. The boy went on to write a novel himself, a colorful fantasy about New Orleans, but no one wanted to publish it. He later killed himself. His name was John Kennedy Toole, | Tom Sancton | ||
| 0727716 | Attacked by a bird," Mrs. Reilly wept. "That hadda happen to you, Ignatius. Nobody never gets attacked by a bird." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| b9e2bad | This was the sort of girl who should be attending college, not ones like that dreadful Minkoff girl, that brutal and slovenly girl who had almost been raped by one of the janitors just outside of his office. Dr. Talc shuddered at the very thought of Miss Minkoff. In class she had Insulted and challenged and vilified him at every turn, egging the Reilly monster to join in the attack. He would never forget those two; no one on the faculty eve.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 0f4f379 | Mrs. Reilly looked at her son slyly and asked, "Ignatius, you sure you not a communiss?" "Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed. "Every day I am subjected to a McCarthyite witch-hunt in this crumbling building. No! I told you before. I am not a fellow traveler. What in the world has put that into your head?" "I read someplace in the paper where they got plenty communiss at college." "Well, fortunately I didn't meet them. Had they crossed my path, .. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| e9f0432 | This guy was a real Pscyho' Mr. Levy said. 'To you character is a psychosis, integrity is a complex. I've heard it all before. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3e0a00d | I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teenage beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard. In addition, I suffered through two nightmares last night, one involving a Scenicruiser bus. The other involved a girl of my acquaintance. It was rather brutal and obscene. If I described it to you, you would no.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 01d3c84 | Already the lecture is beginning to interest several dedicated people I know. One person who has promised to come (and bring several sharp friends, too) is a brilliant new contact I made during rush hour on the Jerome Avenue line. His name is Ongah, and he is an exchange student from Kenya who is writing a dissertation at N.Y.U. on the French symbolists of the 19th cent. Of course, you would not understand or like a brilliant and dedicated .. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 5cd1adb | What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 74d2061 | I am the avenging sword of taste and decency, | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 2533c6b | I refuse to 'look up.' Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 32e3625 | Once in high school someone had shown him a pornographic photograph, and he had collapsed against a watercooler, injuring his ear. This photograph was far superior. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 44f63cf | You know, manacles and chains have functions in modern life which their fevered inventors must never have considered in an earlier and simpler age. If I were a suburban developer, I would attach at least one set to the walls of every new yellow brick ranch style and Cape Cod split level. When the suburbanites grew tired of television and Ping-Pong or whatever they do in their little homes, they could chain one another up for a while. Everyo.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| fb438be | Miss O'Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
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| 32c98de | Claude is dumb. Okay. I'll grant you that. Claude is all the time worrying me about them communiss. Okay. Maybe he don't know nothing about politics. But I ain't worried about politics. I'm worried about dying halfway decent. Claude can be kind to a person, and that's more than you can do with all your politics and all your graduating smart. For everything nice I ever done for you, I just get kicked around. I want to be treated nice by some.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| f904511 | She had driven him downtown in the old Plymouth, and while she was at the doctor's seeing about her arthritis, Ignatius had bought some sheet music at Werlein's for this trumpet and a new string for his lute. Then he had wandered into the Penny Arcade on Royal Street to see whether any new games had been installed. He had been disappointed to find the miniature mechanical baseball game gone. Perhaps it was only being repaired. The last time.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 5fa0a77 | Ignatius, was you wearing that cap when you spoke to the insurance man?" "Of course I was. That office was improperly heated. I don't know how the employees of that company manage to stay alive exposing themselves to that chill day after day. And then there are those fluorescent tubes baking their brains out and blinding them. I did not like the office at all. I tried to explain the inadequacies of the place to the personnel manager, bu.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 16decbc | I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, 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." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 0ae83a9 | She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been subjected to unusual abuse during someone's attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once. At the bottom of the box Patrolman Mancuso found two withered pieces of doughnut out of which, judging by their moist edges, the jelly had been sucked. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 29299bf | I don't believe that my particular body structure is easily adaptable to that type of device, | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| eb7b466 | I will probably spend years at the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital having this attended to," Ignatius said, fingering his ear. "You may expect to receive some rather staggering medical bills each month. My corps of attorneys will contact you in the morning wherever it is that you carry on your questionable activities. I shall warn them beforehand that they may expect to see and hear anything. They are all brilliant attorneys, pillars of.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| c7a7809 | supercilious | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 577a873 | For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books." "You're fantastic." "I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| e6042cf | Lessons for Leaders Humor is one of the most effective leadership tools. The ability to use humor skillfully has served American presidents with political views as disparate as John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. The absence of humor also undermined the effectiveness of Richard Nixon, who often appeared grim or mean-spirited. The multipurpose nature of humor makes it a sort of leadership Swiss Army knife. Kidding that is truly good-natured--.. | Dennis N. T. Perkins | ||
| 368a4c2 | Parce que, a sa facon de causer, on voyait bien que le gars etait alle tres longtemps a l'ecole. C'etait probablement ce qui l'avait rendu dingue. | école french | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 6b32db9 | Art consist of a writer or painter's psychosis extirpated on the canvas of his choosing, a truism whether one is inspecting a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece or deciphering the incomprehensible utterings and dissociated ramblings of one of the Philistines framed in the picaresque novel 'Confederacy of Dunces, written by American novelist John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969). | essayist memoir-writing writers-on-writing writers-quotes writers-voice writing writing-philosophy writing-process writing-style | Kilroy J. Oldster | |
| 520b2f2 | For Christmas, Mrs. Levy always compiled not a gift list but rather a list of the injustices and brutalities she had suffered since August. The girls got this list in their stockings. The only gift Mrs. Levy asked of the girls was that they attack their father. Mrs. Levy loved Christmas. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 66cebd3 | I was in the Pre-School Play section, but we never played like the name said. We had to listen to stories some old woman read to us out of a grownup book that we didn't understand. | John Kennedy Toole |