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John Fante quotes: Come on! Who wants to fight me?

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

John Fante quotes: I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

John Fante quotes: Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.

Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.

John Fante quotes: I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

John Fante quotes: Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

John Fante quotes: I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.

I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.

John Fante quotes: Oh how I hate you, you filthy. But you're cleaner than me, because you've got no mind to sell, just that poor flesh.

Oh how I hate you, you filthy. But you're cleaner than me, because you've got no mind to sell, just that poor flesh.

John Fante quotes: The Church must go, it is the haven of the booboisie, of boobs and bounders and all brummagem mountebanks.

The Church must go, it is the haven of the booboisie, of boobs and bounders and all brummagem mountebanks.

John Fante quotes: You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

John Fante quotes: Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

John Fante quotes: Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.

Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.

John Fante quotes: Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

John Fante quotes: I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.

I tell you I always tip. It's a matter of principle with me. I'm like Hemingway. I always do it second-nature.

John Fante quotes: So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

John Fante quotes: I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

John Fante quotes: Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

John Fante quotes: the world was so big, so full of things I could master.

the world was so big, so full of things I could master.

John Fante quotes: Jesus, these Protestants! In my church we didn't sing cheap hymns. With us it was Handel and Palestrina.

Jesus, these Protestants! In my church we didn't sing cheap hymns. With us it was Handel and Palestrina.

John Fante quotes: Her hair spilled over the pillow like a bottle of overturned ink.

Her hair spilled over the pillow like a bottle of overturned ink.

John Fante quotes: If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

John Fante quotes: Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

John Fante quotes: Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

John Fante quotes: Bandini looked at a patch of blue in the east.'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said.'We sure will!

Bandini looked at a patch of blue in the east.
'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said.
'We sure will!

John Fante quotes: Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

John Fante quotes: My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.

My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.

John Fante quotes: We were two miles from Bunker Hill, in the east part of town, in the section of factories and breweries. She

We were two miles from Bunker Hill, in the east part of town, in the section of factories and breweries. She

John Fante quotes: With my last nickel I went there for a cup of coffee.

With my last nickel I went there for a cup of coffee.

John Fante quotes: When stuck, hit the road.

When stuck, hit the road.