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Say Quotes by Henry Miller
- What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
- Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
- Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are,…
- 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…
- Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats…
- 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.…
- 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;…
- To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to…
- The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate…
- Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash