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Me Quotes by Henry Miller
- It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated…
- Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
- You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of…
- There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved…
- The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable…
- Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my…
- I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I…
- You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man,…
- She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
- I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying…
- To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.
- 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…
- What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with…
- My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
- I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
- 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…
- If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.…
- 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…
- I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion;…
- I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet…
- What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale