Quotes by Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Miller

American writer

Lived from: 1891 - 1980

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 26 december 1891 Died: 7 june 1980

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  • Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
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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!
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  • I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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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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  • 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.
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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.
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  • If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
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  • If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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  • Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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  • In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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  • In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
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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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  • Instead of asking - ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask - ''How much good? How much joy?''
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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.
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  • It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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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.
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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 is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
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  • Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
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  • Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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