"I felt his hot tears and the loneliness……" — 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"
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24 Quotes by John Fante
John Fante has 24 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages,…
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For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down…
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Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They…
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We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in…
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Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet…
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It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning,…
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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…
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Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of…
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More Aching Quotes
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
— Rudyard Kipling
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An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
— George Washington
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Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get…
— Charlie Chaplin
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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you…
— Joseph Conrad
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
— Natalie Goldberg
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind,…
— Joseph Lyons
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The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can…
— John Tukey
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
— Thomas Gray
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
— Ruth Pitter
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What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by…
— Ed Kashi
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
— David Berlinski
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within…
— William Hazlitt
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