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John Fante has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial…
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So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake,…
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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…
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Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy…
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For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a…
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Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths…
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We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work.…
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Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your…
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It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears…
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I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.
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One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles.…
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Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts…
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I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
— Unknown Author
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You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
— Harry S. Truman
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The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms.…
— John Burroughs
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I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could…
— Walter Matthau
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
— James Dean
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From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a…
— Don King
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead…
— Thomas More
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.
— Neal Boortz
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I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
— Indro Montanelli
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying…
— Ken Livingstone
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