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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
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
— Nathanael West
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 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
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
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
— Nathanael West
Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
— 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
Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
— Nathanael West
He was giving birth to groups of words.
— Nathanael West
Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.
— Nathanael West
Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.
— Nathanael West
They haven't the mental equipment for leisure.
— 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
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
— Nathanael West
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
— Nathanael West
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
The sun is a joke.
— Nathanael West
Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
— Nathanael West
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
Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
— Nathanael West
What goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock
— 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.
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Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
— Nathanael West
He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.
— Nathanael West
