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It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
— Nathanael West
Humanity ... I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards ...
— Nathanael West
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
— Nathanael Emmons
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
— Nathanael West
Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.
— Nathanael Emmons
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
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.
— Nathanael Emmons
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.
— Nathanael Emmons
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
The only fear a man has is for what hurts none else but him
— Nathanael Kanyinga
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
Better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.
— Nathanael West
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
— Nathanael Emmons
Everyone have big dreams they would want to see come alive, but not everyone has the strength to awaken the dreams to true life
— Nathanael Kanyinga
I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people
— Nathanael Kanyinga
An old man's advice is not an opinion
— Nathanael Kanyinga
The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status
— Nathanael Kanyinga
He was giving birth to groups of words.
— Nathanael West
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
— Nathanael Greene
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
— Nathanael Greene
Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
— Nathanael West
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
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
His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.
— Nathanael West
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
— Nathanael Emmons
To know the secrets of a place, to read it on many levels, and to sense the vastness of the unknown is, I think, the key to love.
— Nathanael Johnson
Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
— Nathanael West
They haven't the mental equipment for leisure.
— Nathanael West
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
— Nathanael Emmons
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
— Nathanael Emmons
Either we face reality or reality faces us
— Nathanael Kanyinga
Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
— Nathanael West
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
— Nathanael Emmons
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
I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
— David McCullough
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
— Nathanael West
Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
— Nathanael West
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
— Nathanael West
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
— Nathanael Emmons
In the king's bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.
— Nathanael West
Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
— Nathanael Emmons
Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice
— Nathanael Kanyinga
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
— Nathanael Emmons
He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.
— Nathanael West
Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
— Nathanael West
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
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
— Nathanael Emmons
What goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock
— Nathanael West
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
— Nathanael Emmons
Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.
— Nathanael Emmons
Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
— Nathanael Emmons
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
Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
— Nathanael West
These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.
— Nathanael Emmons
The sun is a joke.
— Nathanael West
If yourhands are tied towards
anyone who's in need of
a helping hand, let your
tangue also be tied — Nathanael Kanyinga
There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
— Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading.
— Nathanael Emmons
Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
— Nathanael West
