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Miss Lonelyhearts

 Nathanael West
 

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"...they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything. Money and fame meant nothing to them. They were not worldly men."
 
 
 
"...dont think I am broad shouldered but that is the way I feel about life and me I mean."
 
 
 
"He crushed its head with a stone and left the carcass to the flies that swarmed around the bloody flowers."
 
 
 
"...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust."
 
 
 
"And they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would someday break them."
 
 
 
 
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