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John Fante

"One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed."

Source : John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.411, Canongate Books

John Fante

#Night Quotes #Doors Quotes #Light Quotes

“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”
“Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.”
“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”
“I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.”

Source : RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 15, 2010.
“I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?”
“By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.”
“A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.”
“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”

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