Henry Miller Quotes

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.

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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'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Michael De Luca

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I didn't care what people thought of me, that I was getting better, pushing myself to get better. Those are the things I concentrate on. I don't concentrate on what everyone else was saying.

Robbie Lawler

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In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

Rory Stewart

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The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

Rush Limbaugh

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In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

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My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

Brigitte Bardot

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I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.

Anne Lamott

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Allen Tate

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The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

Philip Schultz

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I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

Sean Connery

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The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.

Rick Dees

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