155 ordspråk av Henry Miller

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Henry Miller föddes den December 26th 1891 och dog den 7 June 1980 - US writer
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 The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

 The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

 The telegraph office eventually moved over to Mrs. Hall's Cafe (on Front Street). It wasn't there long because they got a phone line.

 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.

 The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

 The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

 The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

 The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

 The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

 The world is the mirror of myself dying.

 The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

 The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

 The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

 There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

 There has been a lot of acquisition interest in Polaroid, ... There is no reason to believe that the filing of Chapter 11 would deter these potential purchasers or investors from proceeding. Indeed, it is often the case that Chapter 11 enhances the prospect for sale.


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