891 Quotes by Henry Miller

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one’s threshold.

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

One can sleep almost anywhere, but one must have a place to work. Even if it’s not a masterpiece you’re doing. Even a bad novel requires a chair to sit on and a bit of privacy.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don’t look for them in the wrong places.

You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual.

Always a good dodge to simplify your problem by removing it.

I have never seen a place like Paris for varieties of sexual provender. as soon as a woman loses a front tooth or an eye or a leg she goes on the lose. In America she’d starve to death if she had nothing to recommend her but a mutilation. Here it is different. A missing tooth or a nose eaten away or a fallen womb, any misfortune that aggravates the natural homeliness of the female, seems to be regarded as an added spice, a stimulant for the jaded appetites of the male.

To make the world laugh is one thing; to make it happy is quite another. Nobody has even succeeded in doing it.