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“Mother, Henry and I are married.” Mrs. Dietrich raised her umbrella and whacked me over the head.

Fante, John. The Brotherhood of the Grape: An Autobiographical Novel About a Tyrannical Father and Family Damage (pp. 86-87). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"To write well a man must have a fatal ailment. It was the only way to deal with the presence of death."

Fante, John. The Brotherhood of the Grape: An Autobiographical Novel About a Tyrannical Father and Family Damage (p. 62). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

"London, Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Silone, Hamsun, Steinbeck."

Fante, John. The Brotherhood of the Grape: An Autobiographical Novel About a Tyrannical Father and Family Damage (p. 60). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“Look how neat he is,” she said, pleased. “How clean he keeps his desk. Such a good boy.”

“He always was a neat kid,” I said. I almost added that he always was something of a prick too.

Fante, John. The Brotherhood of the Grape: An Autobiographical Novel About a Tyrannical Father and Family Damage (p. 35). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“Whose sidewalk?”

“Yours.”

“Wrong. It’s the people’s. Your father built it for them, to keep their feet dry.”

Fante, John. The Brotherhood of the Grape: An Autobiographical Novel About a Tyrannical Father and Family Damage (p. 22). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

“What else could I do?” Mario implored over the telephone. “He’s a mean, vicious old man, and the longer you lock him up, the meaner he gets. He’s a mad dog.”

Fante, John. The Brotherhood of the Grape: An Autobiographical Novel About a Tyrannical Father and Family Damage (p. 3). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.