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Henry Miller Quotes

Henry Miller quotes

American Author, Writer, Painter December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980

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I didn’t lack thoughts nor words nor the power of expression— I lacked something much more important: the lever which would shut off the juice. The bloody machine wouldn’t stop, that was the difficulty. I was not only in the middle of the current but the current was running through me and I had no control over it whatever. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the..."
Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No,..."
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 Ar? Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human..."
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. Henry Miller
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! Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "I have found God, but he is insufficient."
I have found God, but he is insufficient. Henry Miller
...the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem of the creative being... obsessed... with the idea of re-creating the world in order, as I see it, to re-establish man's innocence. Henry Miller
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
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the onewhich gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh,..."
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even..."
Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a seer. Henry Miller
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller
In the ultimate sense, the world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. In the realization of this, failure is itself eliminated. Henry Miller
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. Henry Miller

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