Henry Miller Quotes - Page 4

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• Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

  Henry Miller

  Friendship Love, Next, Opinion

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

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• Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.

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  Teacher, Hero, Heart

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

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  Mind, Expect Nothing, Made

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

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• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

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  Change, Pain, Men

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life - provided he go his own way.... To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was and always will be.

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  Men, Rich Life, Effort

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• ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

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  Believe, Miracle, Noses

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• From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.

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  Reading, Men, Done

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

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• What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

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  Hands, Earth, Want

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.397, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

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  Inspirational, Running, Believe

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

  Henry Miller

  Past, World, Gestures

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

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  Live Life, Love Is, Paint

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• I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

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  Change, Learning, Balance

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• A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

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  Peace, Giving Up, Our World

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

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  Trying, Resistance, Problem

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• It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

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  Birthday, Feelings, Young

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• When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

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  Psychosis, Silence, Fans

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• If one believes, then miracles occur.

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  Believe, Miracle, Arches

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

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  Acceptance, Simple, Hands

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality.

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  Memories, Ocean, Sleep

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

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• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

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  Happiness, Money, Determination

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

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  Life, Men, Thinking

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

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• We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

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  Reading, Magazines, Facts

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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• The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

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  Love, Real, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.274, New Directions Publishing

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• Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

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  Jesus, Men, Russia

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• Work on one thing at a time until finished.

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  Writing, One Thing At A Time, Finished

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

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