"So it happened at last: I was about……" — 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."
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John Fante
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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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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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Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes…
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