Henry Miller quotes - page 7

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days. (Henry Miller)
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. View quote
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Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself! View quote
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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. View quote
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. View quote
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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. View quote
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. View quote
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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. (Henry Miller)
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. View quote
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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast. View quote
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The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. View quote
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Paint what you like and die happy. View quote
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The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. View quote
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Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. View quote
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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination. View quote
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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)
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them - that is the tragedy of life. View quote
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. View quote
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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. View quote
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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. View quote
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