Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.
John FanteArturo 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.
John FanteLiterary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
John FanteI felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living
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