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Book Quotes by Henry Miller
- It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to…
- 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…
- My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into…
- A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a…
- I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must…
- 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…
- With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had…
- She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad…
- The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never…
- A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
- A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
- If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a…
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