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You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one—like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail—making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin.
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Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
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Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Nathanael West
Born:
October 17, 1903
Died:
December 22, 1940
(aged 37)
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