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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 One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. |
| Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. |
| Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. |
| Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. |
| Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. |
| Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant |
| Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . .The other eight are unimportant |
| Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. |
| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. |
| The American ideal is youth /handsome, empty youth. |
| The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him. |
| The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. |
| The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. |
| The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. |
| The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. |
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