"If there is work there is warmth, that……" — 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"
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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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's…
— Richard Bach
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
— Clara Barton
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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and…
— Annie Besant
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
— Buffalo Bill
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
— Bjork
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
— Lewis Black
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