"Crowds of people moved through the streets with……" — Nathanael West
"Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence."
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22 Quotes by Nathanael West
Nathanael West has 22 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is…
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At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal…
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More Crowds Quotes
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Never follow the crowd.
— Bernard Baruch
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with…
— Justin Bieber
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his…
— Buffalo Bill
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take…
— Larry Bird
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I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap…
— Emily Blunt
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
— Edward de Bono
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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