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Word Quotes by Henry Miller
- Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
- In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
- Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
- The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead…
- 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…
- 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 think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean…
- Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood
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