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He closed the door carefully, as though his whole life had been spent in the exact science of closing doors.

— John Fante Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938)

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"You ain't gonna live forever, so enjoy it while you can."

The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)

I pulled the huge door open and it gave a little cry like weeping. Above the altar sputtered the blood-red eternal light, illuminating in crimson shadow the quiet of almost two thousand years.

Ask the Dust (1939)

Dear little Vivian, all the way from the clean fields of Minnesota, and not a Swede either, and almost a virgin too, just a few men short of being a virgin.

Ask the Dust (1939)

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

Ask the Dust (1939)

A man could change, if only to survive.

The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)

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Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

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