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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. -- Poppy Z. Brite
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. -- Alexander Pope
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. -- Tamara Feldman
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces. -- Jill Ciment
The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap. -- Daniel Tosh
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. -- Lord Byron
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. -- George Eliot
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. -- Emma Goldman
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. -- William Cowper
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. -- Ambrose Bierce
The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity. -- Alexander Theroux
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories. -- John Hay
At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute. -- Dave Grohl
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare. -- Lisa Marie Presley
In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees. -- Thomas Carlyle
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel. -- Franz Grillparzer
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic. -- C. S. Lewis
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence. -- Lord Byron
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids. -- Stephan Pastis
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable. -- Olivia Wilde
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric. -- Jonathan Swift
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about. -- C. S. Lewis
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists. -- Ivan Turgenev
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. -- Ambrose Bierce
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces. -- Corra May Harris
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. -- Ambrose Bierce
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt? -- Jonathan Swift
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."[Thoughts on Various Subjects] -- Jonathan Swift
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living. -- Charles Caleb Colton

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