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Henry Miller

American author

Nationality: American

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Type: Author

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Birth: 1891-1980

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Actors die so loud.

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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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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

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Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of

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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

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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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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

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The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarce

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin de

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The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosc

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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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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.

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

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Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since

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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

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The world is the mirror of myself dying.

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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

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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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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

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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.

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Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few mon

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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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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

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

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

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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

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I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the ba

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I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

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Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

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A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there, that of the pulse, the hear

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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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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

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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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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

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

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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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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

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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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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

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Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

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Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

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Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

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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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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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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.

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A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would

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The American ideal is youth -handsome, empty youth.

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