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When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

— John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

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"I do believe that I shall have another of these savories."

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

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"Miss Trixie considers luncheon meat a rather toothsome delicacy."

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"What degenerate produced this abortion?"

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"That fat mother got him the green cap."

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