His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.

Nathanael West

Mots clés chicken mouth rectum



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

Nathanael West

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Perhaps I can make you understand. Let’s start from the beginning. A man is hired to give advice to the readers of a newspaper. The job is a circulation stunt and the whole staff considers it a joke. He welcomes the job, for it might lead to a gossip column, and anyway he’s tired of being a leg man. He too considers the job a joke, but after several months at it, the joke begins to escape him. He sees that the majority of the letters are profoundly humble pleas for moral and spiritual advice, and they are inarticulate expressions of genuine suffering. He also discovers that his correspondents take him seriously. For the first time in his life, he is forced to examine the values by which he lives. This examination shows him that he is the victim of the joke and not its perpetrator.

Nathanael West


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Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

Nathanael West


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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.

Nathanael West


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Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

Nathanael West

Mots clés miss-lonelyhearts



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They haven’t the mental equipment for leisure.

Nathanael West


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In the king’s bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.

Nathanael West


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