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Nathanael West has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
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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…
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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
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Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my…
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Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of…
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Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
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Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
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Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that…
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But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
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At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as…
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
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But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money,…
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Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches…
— Betty Friedan
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He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail;…
— Nathanael West
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Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a…
— Nora Roberts
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The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of…
— Betty Friedan
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And I see I'd love to spend the night But you found someone else to lay beside And I know it makes…
— Zoheb
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What perfect breath where my mind lay beside me and all I knew was what had overtaken me with no reason I…
— As I Lay Dying
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Ill pick u up when u fall and if I cant ill lay beside u
— Cecy
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