141 Quotations by Henry Miller
- 101. The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
- 102. The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake ...
- 103. The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, ...
- 104. The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
- 105. The word "civilization" to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as ...
- 106. The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise ...
- 107. The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with t ...
- 108. The world is the mirror of myself dying.
- 109. The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal ...
- 110. The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the cons ...
- 111. There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epo ...
- 112. There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
- 113. There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself, it is something wit ...
- 114. There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
- 115. There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, wh ...
- 116. This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordi ...
- 117. To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly ...
- 118. To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of st ...
- 119. Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else i ...
- 120. Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth, a book is dead to ...
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