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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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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless…
— Conrad Black
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Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread…
— Hedrick Smith
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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity…
— Jude Law
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On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any…
— Luis Marden
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
— Daisy Ashford
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Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
— John Heywood
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Red herrings are fake clues put in place by writers and bad guys to stop you guess what's really going on. One…
— Rachel Hamilton
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A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
— Sholom Aleichem
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Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
— John Dryden
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