"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine." — Henry Miller
"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine."
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Henry Miller
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261 Quotes by Henry Miller
Henry Miller has 261 quotes on this site.
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...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.…
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is…
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich,…
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it…
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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably…
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if…
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever…
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after…
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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But…
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign…
— David Byrne
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The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't…
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
— Paul Cezanne
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In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of…
— Neil MacGregor
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May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything…
— Paul Cezanne
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America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken…
— Thomas McGuane
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple…
— Paul Cezanne
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object…
— Paul Cezanne
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The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.
— James Joyce
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