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“Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla?
Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to,
and not feel ashamed of it.”
― Ask the Dust
Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to,
and not feel ashamed of it.”
― Ask the Dust
“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.”
― Ask the Dust
― Ask the Dust
“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”
― Full of Life: A Definitive Biography of John Fante and His Los Angeles Muse
― Full of Life: A Definitive Biography of John Fante and His Los Angeles Muse
“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.”
― Ask the Dust
― Ask the Dust
“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”
― Wait Until Spring, Bandini
― Wait Until Spring, Bandini
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