John Fante Citas

• Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the writer. If what I write is good, then people will read it. That’s why literature exists. An author puts his heart and guts on the page. For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don’t believe in yourself.

  John Fante

  Believe, Writing, Heart

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• For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

  John Fante

  Believe, Typewriters, Mind

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• When stuck, hit the road.

  John Fante

  Atascado

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.727, Canongate Books

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• Dios Todopoderoso, siento ser ahora ateo, pero ¿has leído a Nietzsche?

  John Fante

  Atheist, Sorry, Atheism

  John Fante (2010). “Ask the Dust”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me. But as I ran, The Arm, that good left arm, took hold of the situation and spoke soothingly: ease up, Kid, it's loneliness, you're all alone in the world; your father, your mother, your faith, they can't help you, nobody helps anybody, you only help yourself, and that's why I'm here, because we are inseperable, and we'll take care of everything.

  John Fante

  Mother, Running, Loneliness

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• 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.

  John Fante

  Night, Light, Doors

  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

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• Pregúntale al polvo de la carretera. Pregúntale a los árboles de Josué que se alzan solos donde empieza el Mojave. Pregúntales por Camila López y susurrarán su nombre.

  John Fante

  Dust, Names, Tree

  John Fante (1990). “Prologue to Ask the Dust”

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• If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

  John Fante

  Men, Blood, Hot

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.150, Canongate Books

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• Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

  John Fante

  Flower, Feet, Giving

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

  John Fante

  Might, Might Have Been, Has Beens

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.500, Canongate Books

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

  John Fante

  Loneliness, Men, Tears

  John Fante (1952). “Full of life”

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• Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

  John Fante

  Running, Pages, Sides

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.15, Canongate Books

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• Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

  John Fante

  Self, Bullshit, Intellectual

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• Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

  John Fante

  Sick, Soul, Faces

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.520, Canongate Books

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• (...) Me dejé llevar, llorando y sin poder parar porque Dios era un canalla tan sucio, una mofeta despreciable, eso es lo que era por hacerle eso a esa mujer. Baja de los cielos, tú Dios, baja y te machaco la cara por toda la ciudad de Los Ángeles, miserable bromista imperdonable. Si no fuera por ti, esa mujer no habría quedado tan mutilada, y el mundo tampoco, (...)

  John Fante

  Letting Go, Dirty, Sky

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• Ah, Evelyn y Vivian, os quiero a las dos, os quiero por vuestras tristes vidas, por la vacía miseria de vuestra vuelta a casa al amanecer. Vosotras también estáis solas, pero no sois como Arturo Bandini, que no es ni pez, ni ave, ni buen arenque rojo. Así que tomaos el champán, porque os quiero a los dos, y a ti también, Vivian, aunque tu boca parezca arrancada con uñas descarnadas y tus ojos de niña vieja naden en sangre escrita como sonetos locos.

  John Fante

  Children, Love You, Home

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

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• We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

  John Fante

  Made, Not Interested, One Thing

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• I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

  John Fante

  Shoes, Wanted, Possessed

  John Fante (2002). “Ask The Dust”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• Arturo Bandini: -¿Qué significa para ti la felicidad, Camila? Camilla: -Que puedes enamorarte de quien quieras sin avergonzarte.

  John Fante

  Falling In Love, Mean, Doe

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• Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

  John Fante

  Strong, Father, Book

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• So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.

  John Fante

  Men, Earthquakes, What If

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.530, Canongate Books

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• El invierno de 1933 fue malo. Aquella noche, mientras volvía a casa entre llamas de nieve, con los dedos de los pies ardiendo, los oídos en llamas y la nieve arremolinándose a mi alrededor como una bandada de monjas enfurecidas, me detuve en seco. Había llegado el momento de hacer balance. Con buen o mal tiempo, ciertas fuerzas del mundo intentaban destruirme.

  John Fante

  Home, Winter, Night

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

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• Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

  John Fante

  Compromiso, Años, Personas

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• ¡Ah, Los Ángeles! Polvo y niebla de tus calles solitarias, ya no estoy solo. Sólo esperad, todos los fantasmas de esta habitación, sólo esperad, porque sucederá, tan seguro como que hay un Dios en el cielo.

  John Fante

  Lonely, Fog, Dust

  "Ask the Dust". Book by John Fante, 1939.

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• When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I tell the clerk to order what is missing. I do it because I want people to read my father's work.

  John Fante

  Father, Book, Order

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