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John Fante

Geburtstag: 8. April 1909
Todesdatum: 8. Mai 1983
Andere Namen: جان فانته, Џон Фанте, جون فانتي, ჯონ ფანტე

John Fante war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller italienischer Abstammung.

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„The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness…All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust (1939), Chapter Fourteen

„"Forgive my body!" she said. She put her arms out to me, the tears flowing down her cheeks. "Think of my soul!" she said. "My soul is so beautiful, it can bring you so much! It is not ugly like my flesh!"“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

„Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust

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

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust

„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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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

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

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust

„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.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: 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“

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—  John Fante, buch Full of Life

Quelle: Full of Life

„Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.“

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—  John Fante, buch The Brotherhood of the Grape

Quelle: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Kontext: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

„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 yet, and that Camilla, she can have her Sammy in the desert, with his cheap short stories and stinking prose, but wait until she has a taste of me, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust (1939)

„I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That’s your trouble: your ignorance of life.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust

„Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.“

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—  John Fante

Quelle: The Big Hunger

„Far down the street I saw the building where Vera lived. Hanging from the wall, like a man crucified, was the bed.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust (1939), Chapter Twelve

„She kissed me, author of The Little Dog Laughed. Then she took my wrist with her two hands. She pressed her lips into the palm of my hand. She placed my hand upon her bosom between her breasts. She turned her lips toward my face and waited. And Arturo Bandini, the great author dipped deep into his colorful imagination, romantic Arturo Bandini, just chock-full of clever phrases, and he said, weakly, kittenishly, "Hello."“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

„Another magazine wanted the Long Lost Hills in digest form. A hundred dollars. I was rich again. A time for amends, for righting the past. I sent my mother five dollars.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

„I sat smiling wretchedly, my heart weeping for The Little Dog Laughed, for every well-turned phrase, for the little flecks of poetry through it, my first story, the best thing I could show for my whole life. It was the record of all that was good in me, approved and printed by the great J. C. Hackmuth, and she had torn it up and thrown it into a spittoon.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

„I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it. This great city, these mighty pavements and proud buildings, they were the voice of my America. From sand and cactus we Americans had carved an empire. Camilla's people had had their chance. They had failed. We Americans had turned the trick. Thank God for my country. Thank God I had been born an American!“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust (1939), Chapter Five

„I looked down at the poor calf. Its hide was spotted black and white and it had the most delicate ankles. From the slightly open mouth there appeared a pink tongue. I closed my eyes and ran out of Hellfrick's room and threw myself on the floor in my room. I lay there and shuddered, thinking of the old cow alone in the field in the moonlight, old cow mooing for her calf. Murder!“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Quelle: Ask the Dust (1939), Chapter Thirteen

„Mr. Hellfrick was an atheist, retired from the army, living on a meager pension, scarcely enough to pay his liquor bills, even though he purchased the cheapest gin on the market. He lived perpetually in a grey bathrobe without a cord or button, and though he made a pretense at modesty he really didn't care, so that his bathrobe was always open and you saw much hair and bones underneath.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

„I didn't care. It was better to be a live coward than a dead madman. These people walking in and out of huge concrete buildings--someone should warn them. It would come again…Los Angeles was doomed. It was a city with a curse upon it.“

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—  John Fante, buch Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust (1939)

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