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 Topic - Most Quotable Book?
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 by - as646  on - 20 Jan 2013 |
I challenge anyone to find a more quotable book than A Confederacy Of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.
"I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner."
"This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion!"
"Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh against the withered thighs of old white ladies in public conveyances a great deal and eliciting more than one shriek of panic. Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless."
Incidentally, if you haven't read it, make it the next book you read.
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