"What is not in the open street is……" — Henry Miller
"What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature."
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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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More Derived Quotes
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one of 319 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
— Saint Basil
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I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
— Russell Brand
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
— David Brainerd
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from…
— Edmund Burke
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001…
— Tom Allen
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In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise…
— Bruce Alberts
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America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to…
— Paulo Freire
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
— Henry Fielding
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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain.…
— Lewis Carroll
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