Nathanael West

Quotes by Nathanael West

• Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

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• He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

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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 need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

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• Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

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• Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

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• He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

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• Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

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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 need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

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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 emotions: I am insane.

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• Numbers constitute the only universal language.

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