25 quotes
A man cannot write a poem or a story that will transform the whole nature of man, his reality and his truth, making them greater and nobler.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Merely to survive is to keep the hope greatness, accuracy, and the grace alive.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Many friendships are swift and accidental, the result of a chance meeting, followed by a permanent separation.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
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)
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)
The world was my home and I was glad to be in it.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
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)
The end of life evokes the errors of it, and a fellow wishes he had known better.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
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)
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
The order I found was the order of disorder.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
Illness is essentially discomfort, and it is not easy for anybody to be comfortable all the time... in his body, in his work, in his house, or in his soul.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)
The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art — that is, the meaningful-real.
The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)