141 Quotations by Henry Miller
- 1. A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It o ...
- 2. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and ...
- 3. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He i ...
- 4. A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, w ...
- 5. Actors die so loud.
- 6. Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper m ...
- 7. After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in t ...
- 8. All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience ...
- 9. All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can ...
- 10. All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruit ...
- 11. An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- 12. Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an ...
- 13. And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other w ...
- 14. Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of ...
- 15. Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. ...
- 16. Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
- 17. Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and go ...
- 18. Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
- 19. Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages ...
- 20. Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
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