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Henry Miller Quotes

American - Author | December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

Work Good Communication Great Must

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.

Work Failure Man War Universe Earth

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Life Character You Now Say Here

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Vision Moment Brainy Golden Him Who

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

World Looking American Way Things

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Men Ability Act Beliefs Majority

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Fear Man Nothing Strange Matter Him

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Literature Say Street Open False

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Beginning Man Actor Out Act Word

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Passion Fire Criticism Nothing Means

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

Truth Long Matter How Does Lives

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Evil Dangerous New Dead Always

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