
A Confederacy of Dunces

“It’s not your fate to be well treated,” Ignatius cried. “You’re an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being.”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
“Do you know that a national home decorating magazine wants to do a four-page color spread on this building?” Dorian asked. “If you had any sense, you would realize that that is the ultimate insult,” Ignatius snorted.
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
“My being has many facets.”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
(For example, can you name one good, practicing transvestite in the Senate?
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
“I am the avenging sword of taste and decency,”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
Oh, Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I’ve been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans.
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
“The next war could turn out to be one massive orgy.
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
She had the determination, the superiority, that comes with intense anger.