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John Fante Quotes
Birthday: | April 8, 1909 |
Death: | May 8, 1983 |
Nationality: | United States Of America |
Occupations: | Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer |
Total quotes: 7
John Fante
BirthnameBirthday: April 8, 1909
Death: May 8, 1983
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer
Total quotes: 7
“Failure is good. Not the kind that crushes you, but the kind that inspires you, the kind that drives you on. Failure is a challenge. It is healthy. In a field where all you need is a paper and a pencil, what have you got to lose? I learn by failures.”
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Failure
“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.”
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Los Angeles
“Because they have nothing in their hearts they must swallow and defend principles they know nothing about...They do not sympathize except hypocritically.”
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Life
“I will make a boisterous pretense at nonsense and my father will leap into the unimportance of it...”
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Life
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