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Nathanael West quotes: It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards. It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
Nathanael West quotes: Humanity ... I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards ... Humanity ... I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards ...
Nathanael West quotes: Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
Nathanael West quotes: She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move. She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move.
Nathanael West quotes: The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog. The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog.
Nathanael West quotes: We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition. We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.
Nathanael West quotes: He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge. He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.
Nathanael West quotes: Better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table. Better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.
Nathanael West quotes: He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain. He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
Nathanael West quotes: Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing. Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
Nathanael West quotes: Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane. Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
Nathanael West quotes: His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum. His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.
Nathanael West quotes: Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he? Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
Nathanael West quotes: He was giving birth to groups of words. He was giving birth to groups of words.
Nathanael West quotes: Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile. Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
Nathanael West quotes: Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
Nathanael West quotes: Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw. Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
Nathanael West quotes: Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence. Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.
Nathanael West quotes: He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter. He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter.
Nathanael West quotes: They haven't the mental equipment for leisure. They haven't the mental equipment for leisure.
Nathanael West quotes: The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies.
Nathanael West quotes: Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.
Nathanael West quotes: But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither. But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
Nathanael West quotes: Numbers constitute the only universal language. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Nathanael West quotes: If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick. If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick.
Nathanael West quotes: It was on this trip that Faye acquired a new suitor by the name of Homer Simpson. It was on this trip that Faye acquired a new suitor by the name of Homer Simpson.
Nathanael West quotes: The sun is a joke. The sun is a joke.
Nathanael West quotes: But the romantic atmosphere only heightened his feeling of icy fatness. But the romantic atmosphere only heightened his feeling of icy fatness.
Nathanael West quotes: Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation. Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
Nathanael West quotes: He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it. He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.
Nathanael West quotes: Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity. Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
Nathanael West quotes: What goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock What goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock
Nathanael West quotes: He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it. He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.
Nathanael West quotes: Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily. Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
Nathanael West quotes: He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden. He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.
Nathanael West quotes: In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep. In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.

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