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"More and more my mind shut down behind the wine . . . until I was conscious of just sections of time. Bits and pieces of grey awareness. Then . . . v-e-r-y-s-o-o-n it was all completely dark."
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Dan FanteThe problem that your type has is that you dont listen and you keep in — Dan Fante
"The problem that your type has is that you dont listen and you keep insisting on operating by your own rules. Only you push and shove and wiggle and spit and outsmart everybody. Youre a lover of man and beast alike, as long as youre getting your way. With people like you, Bruno, pain is the only teacher. Failure. No one can tell you that youre about to put your hand in a buzz saw. But its only when you, yourself, see fingertips flying past your eyes, and watch your arm being chopped into a bloody stump that youll be able to stop. You hit all walls at full speed. Thats what I mean by high maintenance."
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Daniel Smart Fante was an American author and playwright. He was born in Los Angeles.
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"My problem is that I hold grudges. If you and I have had an argument and Ive come out second or you are my boss and youve abused your authority in some way, I will wait, allow the annoyance to fester, even pretend that everything is okay between us, then, with what normally to others would seem like a minimum provocation, without notice, I will overreact and behave like a cornered snake. Its a bad personality flaw and Ive had to pay the tab for it again and again."
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"What amused him most was another humans discomfort."
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"SEA-MATION is a service Id see advertised all the time. The gimmick is cremation plus burial at sea. All in one: SEA-MATION. A fellow with a grey toupee gives the pitch while they continue flashing the 800 phone number of the company on the bottom of the screen. SEA-MATION had a sale going, a pre-need special. Ordering now saved you ninety-nine ninety-five. One week only."
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"I felt the question was stupid so I didnt answer."
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"What he didnt know is that I know desperate too and crazy and what emptiness and alones and rage can do to you when youve got nothing but your own pain in your pockets and your home is a busted-out 1978 Pontiac stalled in an alley in West L.A. and the voice in your mind is carving you up and killing more of you off each day"
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