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Henry Miller Quotes | Quotes said by Henry Miller

  • Henry Miller Quote #1

    , dijo Emerson, . Si es así, mi vida, no es más que un gran intestino. No sólo pienso en la comida todo el día, sino que, además, sueño con ella por la noche.

  • Henry Miller Quote #2

    ...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured- disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui- in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off.

  • Henry Miller Quote #3

    [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandescent.

  • Henry Miller Quote #4

    1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.
    2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to Black Spring.
    3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
    4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
    5) When you can't create you can work.
    6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
    7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
    8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
    9) Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
    10) Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
    11) Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

  • Henry Miller Quote #5

    A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

  • Henry Miller Quote #6

    A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

  • Henry Miller Quote #7

    A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

  • Henry Miller Quote #8

    A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved it was red all the way back to the throat. You entered on the Boulevard Jules-Ferry and came out at the Porte de la Villette. You dropped
    your sweetbreads into the tumbrils – red tumbrils with two wheels, naturally. At the confluence of the Ourcq and Marne, where the water sluices through the dikes and lies like glass under the
    bridges.

  • Henry Miller Quote #9

    All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

  • Henry Miller Quote #10

    Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. [...] This is a little drunken, Anaïs. I am saying to myself here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere. I remember your saying - you could fool me, I wouldn't know it. When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...]
    I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.

  • Henry Miller Quote #11

    And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

  • Henry Miller Quote #12

    And her delicacy offended. Who wants a delicate whore! Claude would even ask you to turn your face away when she squatted over the bidet. All wrong! A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water.

  • Henry Miller Quote #13

    Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

  • Henry Miller Quote #14

    Build your cities proud and high. Lay your sewers. Span your rivers. Work feverishly. Sleep dreamlessly. Sing madly, like the bulbul. Underneath, below the deepest foundations, there lives another race of men. They are dark, sombre, passionate. They muscle into the bowels of the earth. They wait with a patience which is terrifying. They are the scavengers. They emerge when everything topples into dust.

  • Henry Miller Quote #15

    But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he
    hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you
    can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.
    We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the
    moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

  • Henry Miller Quote #16

    Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of our being. Every minute of the day adds fresh crimes to the calendar, both those which are detected and punished, and those which are not. The criminal hunts down the criminal. The judge condemns the judger. The innocent torture the innocent. Everywhere, in every family, every tribe, every great community, crimes, crimes, crimes. War is clean by comparison. The hangman is a gentle dove by comparison. Attila, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan reckless automatons by comparison. Your father, your darling mother, your sweet sister: do you know the foul crimes they harbor in their breasts? Can you hold the mirror to iniquity when it is close at hand? Have you looked into the labyrinth of your own despicable heart? Have you sometimes envied the thug for his forthrightness? The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. The source of it is God whom you place outside, above and beyond. Crime is identification, first with God, then with your own image.

  • Henry Miller Quote #17

    De wiegen der beschaving zijn de verpestende riolen van de wereld, het knekelhuis waarin de stinkende baarmoeders hun bloederige pakjes vlees en been toevertrouwen.

  • Henry Miller Quote #18

    Debería ser rico para tener una secretaria a la que dictar, mientras camino, porque las mejores ideas se me ocurren siempre cuando estoy lejos de la máquina.

  • Henry Miller Quote #19

    Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  • Henry Miller Quote #20

    Don't expect me to be sane anymore. Don't let's be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes—you can't dispute it. I came away with pieces of you sticking to me; I am walking about, swimming, in an ocean of blood, your Andalusian blood, distilled and poisonous... I can't see how I can go on living away from you—these intermissions are death. How did it seem to you when Hugo came back? Was I still there? I can't picture you moving about with him as you did with me. Legs closed. Frailty. Sweet, treacherous acquiescence. Bird docility. You became a woman with me. I was almost terrified by it. You are not just thirty years old—you are a thousand years old.

    Here I am back and still smouldering with passion, like wine smoking. Not a passion any longer for flesh, but a complete hunger for you, a devouring hunger.

  • Henry Miller Quote #21

    Dostoyevski okumaya basladigim o ilk gece, hayatimin en önemli olaylarindan biriydi, ilk askimdan bile daha önemli.

  • Henry Miller Quote #22

    Eens heb ik gemeend dat menselijk zijn het hoogste doel was dat een mens kon nastreven, maar nu zie ik in dat dit bedoeld was om me vernietigen. Nu ga ik er trots op te zeggen dat ik onmenselijk ben, dat ik niet tot mensen en regeringen behoor, dat ik niets met geloofsbelijdenissen en principes te maken heb. Ik heb niets uitstaande met de krakende machine der mensheid - ik behoor tot de aarde!

  • Henry Miller Quote #23

    either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

  • Henry Miller Quote #24

    Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

  • Henry Miller Quote #25

    Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.

  • Henry Miller Quote #26

    Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

  • Henry Miller Quote #27

    Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race

  • Henry Miller Quote #28

    Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

  • Henry Miller Quote #29

    Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

  • Henry Miller Quote #30

    Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

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