Nathanael West Quotes
Top 36 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nathanael West
Nathanael West Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The way to be gay is to make other people gay," Miss Lonelyhearts said. "Sleep with me and I'll be one gay dog.
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.
Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
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.
Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
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.
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
If you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick.
Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
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.
Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.