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Henry Miller Quotes - Page 3

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It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

Stressed, Needs, Metamorphosis

Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

Change, Learning, Balance

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

Way, Realizing, Better Life

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Men, Imperfection, Important

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

Writing, One Thing At A Time, Finished

Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Passion, Mean, Fire

Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

We create our fate everyday

Fate, Destiny, Everyday

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Acceptance, May, Way

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.

Inspirational, Running, Believe

Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

Ordinary, Levels, Problem

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.

Teacher, Hero, Heart

Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality.

Memories, Ocean, Sleep

Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

World, Ghost, Madmen

Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The truly great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain.

Pain, Live Life, Writing

Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

Miracle, Looks

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Sex, Together, World

Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

The cancer of time is eating us away

Time, Cancer, Eating

Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

Artist, Instruments, Creator

Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.138, New Directions Publishing

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

Voyages, Accomplished

Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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.

Writing, Men, Trying

Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

Writing, Men, Artist

Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life - provided he go his own way.... To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was and always will be.

Men, Rich Life, Effort

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Change, Pain, Men

Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

Mind, Expect Nothing, Made

Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

Friendship Love, Next, Opinion

Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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