Tropic Of Cancer Quotes - Page 2

• On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

  Henry Miller

  Time, Drama, Creating

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

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• I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

  Louise DeSalvo

  Artist, Thinking, Happiest Man

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• A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written, thank God. This then? This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty . . . what you will.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Character

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

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• There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Masochism

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

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• Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.

  David Fairchild

  Cancer, Science, Sea

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