Top 15 John Rechy Quotes (2024 Update)

John Rechy Quote: “Writing is hustling of another kind.”

1. “Writing is hustling of another kind.”

John Rechy Quote: “Because it’s getting to be the blue hour, and that’s the time when everything is revealed.”

2. “Because it’s getting to be the blue hour, and that’s the time when everything is revealed.”

John Rechy Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “Just the absence of loneliness. That’s love enough.”

4. “Just the absence of loneliness. That’s love enough.”

John Rechy Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Quote: “The invitation to rot obliviously, to die without feeling it, to grow old looking young, is everywhere in this glorious, sunny, multi-colored city.”

6. “The invitation to rot obliviously, to die without feeling it, to grow old looking young, is everywhere in this glorious, sunny, multi-colored city.”

John Rechy Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “Maybe I could love you. But I wont. The grinding streets awaited me.”

8. “Maybe I could love you. But I wont. The grinding streets awaited me.”

John Rechy Quote: “Memory is too unreliable to be ‘truthful’.”

9. “Memory is too unreliable to be ‘truthful’.”

John Rechy Quote: “All true? I think autobiographers are big liars.”

10. “All true? I think autobiographers are big liars.”

John Rechy Quote: “It’s that magnificent interlude in New York between winter and spring, when you feel the warmth stirring, and you remember that the dreadful naked trees will inevitably sprout tiny green buds, soon. Everyone rushes into the parks, the streets – and you even forget that, very soon, summer will come scorchingly, dropping from the sky like a blanket of steam...”

11. “It’s that magnificent interlude in New York between winter and spring, when you feel the warmth stirring, and you remember that the dreadful naked trees will inevitably sprout tiny green buds, soon. Everyone rushes into the parks, the streets – and you even forget that, very soon, summer will come scorchingly, dropping from the sky like a blanket of steam...”

John Rechy Quote: “And the next moment the fierce wind comes screaming, whirling the needle-pointed dust, stifling all hope. And you know then that what has not happened will never happen. That hope is an end within itself. 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?”

12. “And the next moment the fierce wind comes screaming, whirling the needle-pointed dust, stifling all hope. And you know then that what has not happened will never happen. That hope is an end within itself. 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 Quote: “I read many books, I saw many, many movies. I watched other lives, only through a window.”

13. “I read many books, I saw many, many movies. I watched other lives, only through a window.”

John Rechy Quote: “You can rot here without feeling it.”

14. “You can rot here without feeling it.”

John Rechy Quote: “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?”

15. “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 Quote: “People die when they see life at last without Illusions. For some, it takes many, many years; for others, much less. And so each of us commits suicide: when we will our own deaths: That is the only Death.”

16. “People die when they see life at last without Illusions. For some, it takes many, many years; for others, much less. And so each of us commits suicide: when we will our own deaths: That is the only Death.”

John Rechy Quote: “It’s possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying love.”

17. “It’s possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying love.”

John Rechy Quote: “Hoods, hobos, hustlers, homosexuals. Hunting.”

18. “Hoods, hobos, hustlers, homosexuals. Hunting.”

John Rechy Quote: “Because somewhere in that plain of childhood time must have been planted the seeds of the restlessness.”

19. “Because somewhere in that plain of childhood time must have been planted the seeds of the restlessness.”

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