Quotes by : John Fante

I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt....

(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's....

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

I went to the library. I looked at the magazines, at the pictures in them. One day I went to the bookshelves,....

She had no need in her heart for either book or magazine. She had her own way of escape, her own passage....

Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing....

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen....

Come on! Who wants to fight me?

I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality....

I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret....