Henry Miller Quotes - Page 17

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• It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Ocean, Cutting, Sea

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”

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• At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Two, Bird

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, Men, Matter

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

  Henry Miller

  Taken, Ecstatic

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

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• How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Politics, Different

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you follow me.
  It is more of a search for something, in which, being blindfolded, you develop the tactile, the olfactory, the auditory senses —and thus see for the first time.

  Henry Miller

  Way, Firsts, Looks

  Henry Miller (1950). “The waters reglitterized”

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• The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which the practised dreamer slips into like a bone slips into its sockets

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Book, Feelings

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Insane, Vitality

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

  Henry Miller

  Rip, Character, Plot

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• It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Fall, Men

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

  Henry Miller

  Book, Interest, One Thing

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

  Henry Miller

  Life Is, Coca Cola, Unthinkable

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.258, New Directions Publishing

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• I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Thinking, Air

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

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• To know Paris is to know a great deal.

  Henry Miller

  Paris, Deals, Knows

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• I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Home, Writing

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

  Henry Miller

  Cheer, Hero, Gone

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• Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Profound, Honest, Quiet

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

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• No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.

  Henry Miller

  Hero, Gun, Voice

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• And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

  Henry Miller

  Mean, Boredom, Stuff

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• Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

  Henry Miller

  Use, Firsts, Navigation

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• You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

  Henry Miller

  Sublime, Dear Life, Ends

  "Black Spring".

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• The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Civilization, Mind

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• Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.

  Henry Miller

  Cancer, Eye, Men

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

  Henry Miller

  Skeletons, Literature, World

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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