Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?
Nathanael WestTag: cowboy
Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.
Nathanael WestFeeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.
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Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Nathanael WestIf you're not very busy, a grown man in the uniform of a Western Union boy should make you feel a little sick.
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The sun is a joke.
Nathanael WestHe Sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in the other. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature...the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth wile.
Nathanael WestIt 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.
Nathanael WestTag: beauty
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
Nathanael WestAt college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.
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