No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.More Nathanael West quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one--like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail--making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin.More Nathanael West quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.More Nathanael West quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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.More Nathanael West quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying.More Nathanael West quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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