52 Quotes by Nathanael West

All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth while.

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

He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter.

Tod didn’t laugh at the man’s rhetoric. He knew it was unimportant. What mattered were his messianic rage and the emotional response of his hearers. They sprang to their feet, shaking their fists and shouting.

As he stood smiling, a little wave crept up out of the general welter and splashed at his feet for attention. It was Betty.

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.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.