155 quotes
I had in my soul the greatest truths to tell, but when I came to the work of telling them I couldn't do it.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
My writing is careless, but all through it is something that is good, that is mine alone, that no other writer could ever achieve.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
The business of polishing my shoes satisfies my soul.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
The world was my home and I was glad to be in it.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
My daughter, before she was sixteen, and especially before she was six, absolutely stunned me every day by the simple beauty and sweetness of her truth.
Chance Meetings (1978)
Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve the soul as this freedom and this necessity to be kind.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
There is much for a young writer to learn from our poorest writers. It is very destructive to burn bad books, almost more destructive than to burn good ones.
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
I love Armenian people — all of them. I love them because they are a part of the enormous human race, which of course I find simultaneously beautiful and vulnerable.
Their singing wasn't particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.
The Human Comedy (1943)
You act as if you know more than I'll ever know, but I've forgotten more than you'll ever know.
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
The end of life evokes the errors of it, and a fellow wishes he had known better.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
My superficial manners stink and my profound manners are almost as bad.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
My work is writing, but my real work is being.
Obituaries (1979)
A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)