John Kennedy Toole
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John Kennedy Toole (1937-12-17 – 1969-03-26) was an American novelist best known for his posthumously published comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
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[edit] A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
Quotations are cited from the 1981 Grove Press reprint.
- "Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius bellowed over the crowd in front of the store. "This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected by graft."
- Ch. 1, p. 21
- The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?
- Ch. 7, p. 184
- You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
- Ch. 9, p. 226
