Henry Miller Quotes - Page 16

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• I have found God, but he is insufficient.

  Henry Miller

  God, Religious, Found

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

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• We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

  Henry Miller

  Kings, Musician, Poet

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

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• After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Typewriters, Talking

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

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• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Thinking, Knowing

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Swimming, Shining

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Names, Firsts

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

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• All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Creativity, Men

  Henry Miller (2016). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Littles, Duty

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• There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

  Henry Miller

  Powerful, Ideas, Vision

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

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• And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Writing, Sitting

  "Henry Miller: The Last Days" by Barbara Kraft, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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

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• Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Pain, Writing

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

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• I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

  Henry Miller

  Dirt, Villa, All Alone

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

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• It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

  Henry Miller

  Big Sur, Firsts, Bigs

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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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.

  Henry Miller

  Ocean, Cutting, Sea

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”

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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.

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  Fear, Men, Matter

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

  Henry Miller

  Hate, Inspiration, Envy

  "Henry Miller: The Last Days" by Barbara Kraft, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2013.

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• How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Politics, Different

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

  Henry Miller

  Needs, Faces, Spit

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Symphony, Years

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

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• The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Poison, May

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

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• New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Insane, Vitality

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.159, New Directions Publishing

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• The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which the practised dreamer slips into like a bone slips into its sockets

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Book, Feelings

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.71, New Directions Publishing

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• You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you follow me.
  It is more of a search for something, in which, being blindfolded, you develop the tactile, the olfactory, the auditory senses —and thus see for the first time.

  Henry Miller

  Way, Firsts, Looks

  Henry Miller (1950). “The waters reglitterized”

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• Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Inspire, Cylinders

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