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Come on! Who wants to fight me?
— John Fante
Everything is easy. However, the ways to make difficult things easy, sometimes it's not easy (Totok R. Biyanto)
— Totok R. Biyanto
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
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
I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.
— John Fante
I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.
— Jonathan Evison
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
The Church must go, it is the haven of the booboisie, of boobs and bounders and all brummagem mountebanks.
— John Fante
Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.
— John Fante
Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.
— John Fante
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
— John Fante
All the dreams you show up in are not your own.
— Gil Scott-Heron
The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Jesus, these Protestants! In my church we didn't sing cheap hymns. With us it was Handel and Palestrina.
— John Fante
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
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
I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.
— Willie Stargell
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
Had worked so hard to bring about, that Lawrence was suddenly
— Scott Anderson
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
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
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
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb
— Kevin E. Kruse
Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.
— Frank Pittman
Bandini looked at a patch of blue in the east.
'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said.
'We sure will! — John Fante
'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said.
'We sure will! — John Fante
You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment ...
— James Gleick
You went full-on bitchy and made a dramatic exit?" He sounded way too gleeful over my histrionics. "I have taught you well, my young apprentice.
— T.J. Klune
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
We were two miles from Bunker Hill, in the east part of town, in the section of factories and breweries. She
— John Fante
When stuck, hit the road.
— John Fante