“This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative life! Ascension. Passing beyond oneself. Rocketing out into the blue, grasping at flying ladders, mounting, soaring, lifting the world up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One doesn't want appreciation... one wants response. To tell you the truth, I don't know what I want of you, or of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The moral aspect was merely a concomitant, a coverall for some deeper, almost forgotten purpose. That histoire should be story, lie and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive… — 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 Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
“(...)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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
