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Letter "H" » Henry Miller Quotes
«Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement»
«We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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drink in, fragmented, fragmenting, fragments, in the mind, Music of, outer, The Streets, The Wild, wild
«Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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concern, critic, drop, fruits, reader, ripe, riper, ripest, sheer, sheerer, The Critic, The General
«My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Books
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boisterous, confused, diabolically, lustier, lusty, negligent, obscene, reckless, scrupulous, the books, truthful
«The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.»
«What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
bitter, holds, intercourse, sexual, sexual intercourse
«A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there / that of the pulse, the heart beat.»
«To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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awake, electrified, electrify, electrifying, killing, killings, soak, soaking, soaks, soak up, staying
«A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
caricature, debacle, face value, gadget, impending, New World, queasy, smug, timid
«The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
calamities, contained, contained in, Hoboken, hotel room, intimate with, stabbing, tame
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