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Letter "H" » Henry Miller Quotes
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«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.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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American Indian, bribery, crushed, doomed, hack, hacking, hacks, Indian, Negro, seduce, starve, submission, The Mexican, white man
«The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.»
«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!»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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balconies, balcony, breath of fresh air, celestial, comma, commas, Fresh Air, intermission, intermissions, semicolon, semicolons, take a breath, think up, toilet
«No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.»
«The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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harmonize, harmonized, harmonizes, harmonizing, incarnate, incarnated, put in
«Instead of asking -- ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask -- ''How much good? How much joy?''»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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asking, bring about, damage, damages, in question, work in
«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.»
«The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.»
«Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.»
«In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.»
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