Henry Miller Quotes - Page 9

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• If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.

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  Book, Reading, Rain

  Henry Miller (2012). “Plexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

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  America, Looks, Literature

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.117, New Directions Publishing

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• It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

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  Paris, People, France Paris

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

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• The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

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  Men, Differences, Paradise

  Henry Miller (1956). “A Devil in Paradise”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

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  Goal, Doubt, Purpose

  Henry Miller (2007). “Nexus: The Rosy Crucifixion III”, p.129, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

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  Optimistic, Eye, Land

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.319, New Directions Publishing

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• What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over.

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  Pain, Moving, Destiny

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• The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

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  Self, Form, Concerts

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• Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

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  Heart, Angel, Men

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

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  Eye, Sole, Grain

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

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• I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

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  Effort, Dry, Quiet

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

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  Liars, Lying, Writing

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.247, New Directions Publishing

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• It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.

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  Pleasure, Brushes, Happens

  Henry Miller (2016). “Henry Miller Interview 1”, p.3, Masters Masterworks

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• She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us an we in each other's arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks--- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Sea

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• It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

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  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

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  Running, Song, Wine

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

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• Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

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  Mistake, Opinion, Dictator

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• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

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  Life, Procrastination, Long

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

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  Death, Spiritual, Unknown Worlds

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

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• We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

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  Music, Ideas, Mind

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.9, New Directions Publishing

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• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

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  Leadership, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

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  Individual, Do Not Fear, Protected

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• Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

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  Life, Matter, Let Me

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

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

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  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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