"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."

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Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

Nathanael West

#Zoos Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Animal Quotes

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”
“Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.”
“I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.”

Source : The Golden Skate Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.
“The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.”
“There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray walls. But we can't see it when we stay at home. There is so much sky above our roof. Is the door so old that it won't open, or are we at home because we're afraid of catching a chill?”
“I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings..”
“I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.”
“At the same time the players around me almost make it an automatism to score goals. We have so much quality and speed on the pitch - the genius of players like Mario Gotze or Marco Reus has to lead to goals.”

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