"It is hard to laugh at the need……" — Nathanael West
"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."
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Nathanael West
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22 Quotes by Nathanael West
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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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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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He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking…
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