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Dan Fante Biography

Daniel Smart "Dan" Fante (February 19, 1944 – November 23, 2015) was an American author and playwright. He was born in Los Angeles.

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Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.

Art, Sense, Present, Way, Vitality

I think we create our own reality by the thoughts we have. Recovery for me has been learning how to choose my thoughts, learning how to listen to my thinking and not choose the negativity. I don't have fights with people in supermarkets anymore. I honestly thought for years that my rage was who I was, that people who didn't think the way I thought were lying to themselves.

Fighting, Lying, Negativity, Recovery, Think, Thoughts

The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

Book, Booze, Character, Fante, Passion, Years

Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

Creativity, Thinking, Achieved

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Schuyler Colfax

Bill Walton

Bill Walton

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Drew Lachey

Drew Lachey

Elliot S. Maggin

Elliot S. Maggin

Michael Harner

Michael Harner

Robert A. Lewis

Robert A. Lewis

Brad Bird

Brad Bird

Jon Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi

Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

Stockwell Day

Stockwell Day

Hosni Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak