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Henry Miller
Henry Miller
American Author
Born: Dec 26, 1891
Died: Jun 7, 1980
Always Life Man Own Which World
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Henry Miller
Wisdom Own Sense Our Possesses Physical Physical Body Give No Sense Make Lack Orders Which Inhabit Body Who
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. Henry Miller
Life Art Way Something More Only Points Merely Abundant Himself Becoming Overlooked End Itself Very Artist Often Which Public Means Defeats
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. Henry Miller
Ethics Become Matters Trifling Miraculous Laws Import Doctrines Norm Customs Beliefs
Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' Henry Miller
Work Good Joy Will About Instead How How Much Question Ask Much Asking Why Why Not Bring Damage
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. Henry Miller
Life Liar Invention Though Fabric Admittedly Outrageous Absolutely Sincere Most Very Truthful Fiction Even
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. Henry Miller
Desperation Face Recognition Thousands Sees Nobody Look Another Without Passing Tragedy Us
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. Henry Miller
Age Long Lesson Difficult Everything Way Easiest Run Long Run Most Learned Greatest Short Short Cut Which Cut Believes
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. Henry Miller
Dangerous Evil Sense Carries Sacred New Dead Always Different Subversive Violation
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. Henry Miller
World Harmonize Put Order Us Incarnate
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. Henry Miller
Passion Criticism Fire Nothing Wants Means Honest
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. Henry Miller
Day Will Men Become Believe Worms One Day Surely Cease Gods Then
We live at the edge of the miraculous. Henry Miller
Edge Live Miraculous
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. Henry Miller
Joy Drop Whatever Tree Critic Out Ripe General Like Concern Reader Sheer Makes Done Fruits Them
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. Henry Miller
Man Enemy Every Classics Human Race Human Race Every Man
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller
Best Defeat Approval Seek Something Beyond Powers Known His Friends Trying Useless Moments
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. Henry Miller
Death Truth History Song Singing Ranks Entered Since Always Been Swan Confounded Ever
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. Henry Miller
Life Nothing Shall Fact Mystery Until Learn Accept Itself Founded
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. Henry Miller
Fruit Old Before Young Vital Able Ripen Rather Never Had Look Been America Which Prematurely Chance
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. Henry Miller
Work Good Great Communication Mysteries Important Few Secondary Those Must Only Except Obscure Like Himself Great Work Reader Inevitably Perpetuation Very Author Which Then Who Initiated Necessary
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. Henry Miller
Life Character You Word Say Plots Rip Make Anytime Now Her Here
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. Henry Miller
World Looking Way Oceans Off American Which Cut Us American Way Things
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. Henry Miller
Men Few Distinguishes Ability Majority According Act Beliefs
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. Henry Miller
Man Strange Fear Matter Nothing Once Enslaved Guise About Something Him Without Itself Familiar Which Who Appears Presents
What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. Henry Miller
Say Open False Literature Derived Street
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. Henry Miller
Man Word Beginning Out He In The Beginning Act Actor Acts
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? Henry Miller
Man Words Other Sum Potential Divine He Human In Other Words After
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