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Out Quotes by Henry Miller
- The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker…
- Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes…
- In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of…
- No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ.…
- Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their…
- You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man,…
- I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the…
- 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…
- have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there…
- 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…
- 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…
- Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior -…
- The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want…
- I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light…
- 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…
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of…
- Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death…
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