Henry Miller Quotes - Page 3

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• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

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  Fate, Needs, Literature

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

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  Voyages, Accomplished

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• We create our fate everyday

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  Fate, Destiny, Everyday

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

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• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

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  Mean, Two, Society

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

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  Perspective, World, Way

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.351, New Directions Publishing

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• Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

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  Sex, War, Obscenity

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. 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. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

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  Writing, Men, Trying

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

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• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

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  Order, Confusion, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

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  Fear, Inspiration, Giving

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

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  Giving Up, Believe, Writing

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

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• The cancer of time is eating us away

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  Time, Cancer, Eating

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

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• Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

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  Beer, Men, Thinking

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• By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

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  Ordinary, Levels, Problem

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• The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

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  Communication, Writing, Important

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.246, New Directions Publishing

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• What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

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  Writing, Men, Artist

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

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• The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it.

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  Eye, Heart, Gun

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• An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

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  Artist, Instruments, Creator

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.138, New Directions Publishing

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• Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

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  Self Control, Conformity, No Hope

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• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

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  Order, Giving, Redemption

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

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• It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

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  Stressed, Needs, Metamorphosis

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.

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  Jobs, Genius, World

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• I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

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  Men, Feels Just, Crooks

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

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  Dedication, Giving

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• Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

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  Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

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  Passion, Mean, Fire

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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