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Nathanael West Quotes

Numbers constitute the only universal language Picture Quote #1

Art Is One if Life’s Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation Picture Quote #1

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything Picture Quote #1

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language Picture Quote #1

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither Picture Quote #1

It’s solitary drinking that makes drunkards Picture Quote #1

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Let him ride a horse. He’s a cowboy ain’t he? Picture Quote #1

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily Picture Quote #1

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears Picture Quote #1

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile Picture Quote #1

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying Picture Quote #1

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing Picture Quote #1

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No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it Picture Quote #1

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous Picture Quote #1

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Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity Picture Quote #1

Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo Picture Quote #1

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Numbers constitute the only universal language (Nathanael West Quotes) Art Is One if Life’s Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation. (Nathanael West Quotes) At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything (Nathanael West Quotes) Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language (Nathanael West Quotes) But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither (Nathanael West Quotes) It’s solitary drinking that makes drunkards (Nathanael West Quotes) Let him ride a horse. He’s a cowboy ain’t he? (Nathanael West Quotes) Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily (Nathanael West Quotes) Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears (Nathanael West Quotes) Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile (Nathanael West Quotes) Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying (Nathanael West Quotes) Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing (Nathanael West Quotes) No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot (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 (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 (Nathanael West Quotes) He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain (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 (Nathanael West Quotes) It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous (Nathanael West Quotes) Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity (Nathanael West Quotes) Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo (Nathanael West Quotes)