The Dream Life of Balso Snell Quotes

“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.”
― Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell

“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.”
― Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell

“His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.”
― Nathanael West, The Dream Life of Balso Snell