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• The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

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  Dream, Artist, Men

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

  Henry Miller

  Ignorance, Harness, Ready

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• Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Humor, Direct Action

  Henry Miller (1952). “Remember to Remember”

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• The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

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  Oysters, Violence, Resorts

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

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  Reflection, Becoming, Viruses

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous.

  Henry Miller

  Food, Paris, Cooking

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• Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

  Henry Miller

  Hate, Judaism, Jew

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• I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Cold, Coming Out

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, America, Individuality

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• Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

  Henry Miller

  Chaos, Ghost, Midst

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Paper

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

  Henry Miller

  Reader, Skip

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• We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

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  Criticism, Five Senses, Creation

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.166, New Directions Publishing

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• The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

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  Art, Practice, Self

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• They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.

  Henry Miller

  Doors, Soul

  "Tropic of Capricorn".

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• The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

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  Contentment, Difficult, Contentment And Peace

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

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  Progress, Insane, Enlightenment

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Jobs, Love You

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• The purpose of life is to remember.

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  Purpose, Remember, Life Is

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• I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Believe, Soul

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• The best technique is none at all.

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  Technique

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

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  Falling In Love, Selfish, Thinking

  "Tropic of Cancer".

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• He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

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  Writing, Trying, Viruses

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.

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  Wise, Strong, Love You

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• The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

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  Fear, Reality, Tragedy

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.335, New Directions Publishing

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