"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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John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist best known for his posthumously published comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
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