"You start with the sublime and end up……" — Henry Miller
"You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life."
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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 Alley Quotes
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These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty…
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in…
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
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If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.
— Conn Smythe
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In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for…
— Dave Barry
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The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with…
— Max Lucado
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Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
— L. Neil Smith
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is…
— Heinrich Himmler
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If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be…
— Lyle Alzado
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Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of…
— Steve Earle
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The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are…
— Ray Charles
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And you call yourselves a bowling alley?
— Woody Harrelson
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