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

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Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

Nathanael West

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.”
“I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Accomplish something every day of your life.”
“I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If youâ€™re not a feminist, then youâ€™re a problem.”
“I don't like to use the words "real women," honestly. I like to use the word woman. And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin, or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people. At the end of the day we just all want to be known as women or models or actresses or whatever.”

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“In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.”
“Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.”
“The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.”

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