John Kennedy Toole's Words of Wisdom To Inspire You

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

John Kennedy Toole

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.

John Kennedy Toole

I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora’s Box.”

John Kennedy Toole

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

John Kennedy Toole

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

John Kennedy Toole

The heart is important at any age, I’m afraid

John Kennedy Toole

Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty.

John Kennedy Toole

Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself.

John Kennedy Toole

What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

John Kennedy Toole

Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person’s lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one’s soul.

John Kennedy Toole

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