Quotes
Authors
John Fante

"Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You too are alone, but you are not like Arturo Bandini, who is neither fish, fowl nor good red herring. So have your champagne, because I love you both, and you too, Vivian, even if your mouth looks like it had been dug out with raw fingernails and your old child's eyes swim in blood written like mad sonnets."

Source : John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.89, Canongate Books

John Fante

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“I got a lot out of 'Brothers Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on.”
“Thursday! It canâ€™t be! Itâ€™s too gruesome!”
“Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.”
“You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel”, p.214, Hachette UK
“From the first time heâ€™d met her, heâ€™d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other peopleâ€™s art and ideas...”
“Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.”
“Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.”
“Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.”

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