52 Quotes by Nathanael West

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

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.

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

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

He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.

His heart was a rose and in his skull another rose bloomed.The room was full of grace. A sweet, clean grace, not washed clean, but clean as the innersides of the inner petals of a newly forced rosebud.

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.