"The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting……" — Henry Miller
"The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife."
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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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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
— Margaret Atwood
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
— Arnold Bennett
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
— Annie Besant
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do…
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is…
— Alan Alda
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I…
— Julie Andrews
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