Nathanael West
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born
October 17, 1903
died
December 22, 1940
place of birth
New York City, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
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"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."
— Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts)
— Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts)
"He Sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in the other. Mandolins are tuned G D A E. The physical world has a tropism for disorder, entropy. Man against Nature...the battle of the centuries. Keys yearn to mix with change. Mandolins strive to get out of tune. Every order has within it the germ of destruction. All order is doomed, yet the battle is worth wile."
— Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts)
— Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts)
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