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Come on! Who wants to fight me?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

When stuck, hit the road.