Henry Miller Quotes - Page 6

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• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

  Henry Miller

  Happiness, Money, Determination

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

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  Hero, Men, Differences

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.167, New Directions Publishing

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• Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

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  Men, Class, Waiting

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• Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!

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  Men, Humanity, Principles

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

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• Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

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  Men, Destiny, Work Out

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

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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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  Work, Believe, Ambition

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

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  Law, Miracle, Doctrine

  "Black Spring". Book by Henry Miller, 1936.

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• I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

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  Passion, Responsibility, Worry

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

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  Money, Night, Crowds

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

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  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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• Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

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  Tree, Joy, Done

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

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  Philosophy, Facts, Action

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

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  Love, Real, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.274, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Men, Creation Of Man, Actors

  Henry Miller (1978). “Quiet days in Clichy and The world of sex: two books”, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

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  Night, Earth, Creation

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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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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  Expression, Growth, Decay

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

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• Words are loneliness.

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  Loneliness

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

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  Thinking, Wings, Bird

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

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• With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

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  Book, Reading, Hands

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• When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life, then it is that I run with joy to the great and imperfect ones, their confusion nourishes me, their stuttering is like divine music to my ears.

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  Running, Art, Emotional

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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  Prison Life, Literature, Crime

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

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  Important, Way, Storytelling

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

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• My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort

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  Regret, Effort, World

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• The world is the mirror of myself dying.

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  Death, Mirrors, Dying

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

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