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Letter "H" » Henry Miller Quotes
«Who wants to live to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long life sustained by fear, caution and perpetual medical surveillance»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
caution, medical, merry, perpetual, surveillance, sustained
«The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
consciousness, imperfection, manifestation, pregnant
«After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
desk, occurs, shaved, shaves, shaving, talking to, The Quiet, typewriter, vitally, writing desk
«This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
Art a, defamation, gob, key word, kick in, kick off, libel, off-key, prolonged, slander, spit, this is not a
«In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Learning
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age, believes, cut, cutting out, cut into, cut short, cut through, cut to, cut up, difficult, easiest, in the long run, in this, learned, lesson, long run, run, short, Short Cuts, short run, The Greatest, The Long, The Long Run
«Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
encountered, fabric, magnificent, monotonous, peak, reaches, terrifying, the Peak, topographically
«A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulated, disillusionment, innocence, inoculate, inoculated, inoculating, live out, on paper, poison, recapture, recaptured, set off, succeeds, throw off, virus, viruses, way of life, writes, write off
«Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
diseased, fearsome, guise, hangovers, happen upon, imposed, morality, taboo, taboos, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing
«Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.»
«There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
composing, creating, Creative Writing, devises, devising, dreaming, epic, epics, industry, invention, Joy of, picture writing, singing, symphonies, symphony
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