Miss Lonelyhearts
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"Miss Lonelyhearts" Quotes

By Nathanael West

fiction | 212 pages | Published in 2009

OTHER: EAN:8596547184539

Quotes

Don't look for answers. Just be quiet.

Nathanael West

Why is it that the more helpless a creature is, the harder it tries to look ferocious?

Nathanael West

No matter how ugly you are, there's always someone who wants to be ugly with you.

Nathanael West

People would be happier if they admitted things more often.

Nathanael West

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men.

Nathanael West

She was hot with shame, and she could not get away from it; she could not forsake it.

Nathanael West

The public grew hungrier as the distance from the war increased.

Nathanael West

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.

Nathanael West

Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window — at most: column, tower...

Nathanael West

He crammed his fist into the closet door as though he were ramming it down the throat of some obscene beast.

Nathanael West