155 ordspråk av Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Henry Miller föddes den December 26th 1891 och dog den 7 June 1980 - US writer
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 Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. |
| Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say. |
| I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! |
| I don't have a problem driving 60 minutes round trip to bring my child to school. It's not a racial thing. It's a quality education thing. |
| I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. |
| 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. |
| I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. |
| I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. |
| I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people. |
| If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. |
| If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having |
| If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. |
| If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion. |
| Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. |
| In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. |
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