Rechy John Quotes & Sayings

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance. — Frank Herbert

Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down. — John Rechy

All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest. — Fred Hoiberg

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

Writing is hustling of another kind. — John Rechy

Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first. — John Rechy

'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about. — Alan Arkin

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough. — John Rechy

You can rot here without feeling it. — John Rechy

Against a wall a faded blonde woman - an exiled angel, the hints of beauty still lingering on her palewhite face - sits with blackoutlined eyes burning into the bar. — John Rechy

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American. — John Rechy

People don't like the word 'feminism' - that's what needs to change, because we're not going to find another word. — Bridget Christie

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up. — Thomas Friedman

The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself. — Jonathan Mayhew

And now, it seems, they are all here: the handsome masculine ones desired alike by men and women; the gushing swishes, hands aflutter like wings; the few stray women secure among the men who will idolize them but not love them; and as in any group of homosexuals and those lured for whatever reason to them, there is here a mood of superficial good humor, of euphoria bordering on hysteria. So — John Rechy

Maybe I could love you. But I wont. The grinding streets awaited me. — John Rechy

While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends. — Slick Rick

It's too late. It's too late. Through the open door of the bathroom I see a watersoaked bag on the floor. — John Rechy

Why did you give me a freedom for which I was unfit? Why did you stop teaching me? If you wished it, if you guided me differently, none of all this would happened. I should not now be punished, for no fault at all, by your indifference and even contempt, and you would not have taken from me unjustly all that I valued in life.
Let us be thankful that there is an end of the old emotions and excitements.
That day ended a romance of our marriage. Old feeling became a precious irrecoverable remembrance but a new feeling of love for my kids and their father laid the foundation of a new life and quite different happiness. That life and happiness lasted until to the present time. — Leo Tolstoy

Truth comes out in wine. — Pliny The Elder

And the fierce wind is an echo of angry childhood and of a very scared boy looking out the window - remembering my dead dog outside by the wounded house as the gray Texas dust gradually covered her up - and thinking: It isnt fair! Why cant dogs go to Heaven? — John Rechy

The society had a vast number of ceremonies and observances, but it had no history and no object; that was where it was so very aristocratic. — G.K. Chesterton

If we bred better programmers we'd clearly breed better bugs. — Anonymous