"It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me."

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Source : John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books

John Fante

#Home Quotes #Winter Quotes #Night Quotes

“Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.”
“The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the odds, in the face of danger, and win.”
“Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.”

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.76, Institute of GS
“All books are in safe hands with me. They're my children, my inky children, and I look after them well. I keep the sunlight away from their pages, I dust and protect them from hungry hookworms and grubby human fingers.”
“The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude.”
“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
“Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.”
“Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.”

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