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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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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Nathanael West
Born:
October 17, 1903
Died:
December 22, 1940
(aged 37)
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