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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  • There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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  • Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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  • Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • We talk about fate as if it were something visited upon us; we forget that we create our fate every day we live.
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  • What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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  • What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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  • What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
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  • Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
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  • Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
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  • When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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  • When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
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  • Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
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  • Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
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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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  • You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
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