"It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous."

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Source : Nathanael West (1969). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

Nathanael West

#Laughing Quotes #Romance Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.”
“I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.
“This thing you carry inside you, I don't know what it is. I don't know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.”
“We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.”
“The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.”
“I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.”

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