Quotes by : Nathanael West

...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements....

It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results....

All their lives they had slaved at some kind of dull, heavy labor, behind desks and counters, in the....

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath.....

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman....

It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing....

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

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

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.....

We must take the long view—every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.