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Come on! Who wants to fight me? — John Fante

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

no wonder i let queers suck my cock — Dan 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

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

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

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

I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink. — Dan Fante

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

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

When stuck, hit the road. — John Fante