"He felt as though his heart were a……" — 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."
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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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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases…
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
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We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
— Abdallah II
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It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the…
— Barbara Bush
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people…
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