"I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living"

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Source : John Fante (1952). “Full of life”

John Fante

#Loneliness Quotes #Men Quotes #Tears Quotes

“I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.”

Source : "Jennie Garth Explains How She Got So Skinny" by Allison Corneau, www.usmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.
“I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say 'Pass the salt'. It could mean, you know, 'Can I have some salt?' or it could mean, 'I love you.' It could mean, 'I'm very annoyed with you'. Really, the list could go on and on. Words are little bombs, and they have a lot of energy inside them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.”
“I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.”
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”
“The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.”
“Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.”

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