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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…’

‘They still remembered to use stones…’

‘We’ll never get them to notice us if we say ordinary things in an ordinary way…’

‘All great and precious things are lonely…’

‘If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed…’

‘We live as we dream. Alone…’

‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will’

‘See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories…’

‘Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realised what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it…’