"The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce."

-- Dan Fante

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“The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.”
“Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.”
“I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.”

Source : "Liberal Party Further Divided by ETS Negogiations as Tony Abbott Abandons Malcolm Turnbull's Push for Amendments". www.heraldsun.com.au. November 20, 2009.
“The #â€Ž zodiac sign on the #â€Ž Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.”
“[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.”
“Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “Heart of a Dog”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.”

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