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Book Review: A Confederacy of Dunces

‘Employers sense in me a denial of their values…’

‘She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive…’

‘In life you have to learn to count the good days…’

‘They still remembered to use stones…’

‘The power to hurt is a kind of wealth…’

‘We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane…’

‘All great and precious things are lonely…’

‘All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting…’

‘I take my work too seriously…’

‘Like all of my friends, she’s a lousy judge of character…’