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John Kennedy Toole Quotes: you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
         

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.


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Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.



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