141 Quotations by Henry Miller
- 121. We create our fate every day... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own be ...
- 122. We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of n ...
- 123. We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something ...
- 124. We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means ...
- 125. We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the stree ...
- 126. We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it ...
- 127. What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel ...
- 128. What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- 129. What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or mov ...
- 130. What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
- 131. What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
- 132. Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader o ...
- 133. Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
- 134. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeyi ...
- 135. When one is trying to do something beyond one's known powers it is useless to seek the approval of f ...
- 136. When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.
- 137. When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. Ther ...
- 138. Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only ...
- 139. Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
- 140. Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselve ...
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