A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I detest all books which run chronologically, which commence at the cradle and end with the grave. Even life doesn't run that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It was always my habit to mark excessively the books I liked. How wonderful it would be, thought I, to see those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps my grandfather was right, perhaps I was spoiled in the bud by the books I read. But it is ages since… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I like the monologue even more than the duet, when it is good. It's like watching a man write a book expressly… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and… — Henry Miller Copy Share
