Henry Miller Quotes

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Henry Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980

Topics

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I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper.

Jerry Spinelli

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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

Jesse Ventura

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I've got a hat face. My mother always said I've got a hat face.

Jenny Eclair

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Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Stephen Hawking

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To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

Tom Sizemore

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Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that in some senses could be thought of as traditionally American: The idea that everybody is equal; the idea that the rights of women and men should be the same.

Mohsin Hamid

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I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

Joss Whedon

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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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I didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.

Donald Cerrone

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The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

Asne Seierstad

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You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Piper Perabo

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