Quotations From HENRY MILLER

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• 21.

  We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets—we remember only.

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "The Fourteenth Ward," Black Spring (1936).
  
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• 22.

  Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "The Enormous Womb," The Wisdom of the Heart (1947).
  
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• 23.

  If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. The Colossus of Maroussi, pt. 3 (1941).
  
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• 24.

  What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Tropic of Capricorn, p. 159 (1939, repr. 1966).
  
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• 25.

  Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere," The Cosmological Eye (1939).
  
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• 26.

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

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Tropic of Capricorn, p. 174 (1938, repr. 1966).
  
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• 27.

  Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "An Open Letter to Surrealists Everywhere," The Cosmological Eye (1939). On the subject of surrealism, Miller wrote earlier in the same essay, "I was writing Surrealistically in America before I had ever heard the word."
  
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• 28.

  And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. repr. in Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch, pt. 3, "Paradise Lost" (1957). A Devil in Paradise (1956).
• 29.

  An artist is always alone—if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Tropic of Cancer, p. 72 (1934, 1979).
  
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• 30.

  Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

  Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. repr. (1979). Tropic of Cancer, p. 276 (1934).