Nathanael West Quotes
Nathanael West Quotes
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
4659 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.
1116 It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush.
4813 ...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.
3948 Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
1590 He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
4365 Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards...
4382 Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.
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