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Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Henry Miller föddes den 26 december 1891 och dog den 7 juni 1980 - amerikansk författare.
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The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

Stad och Land

We create our fate every day we live

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

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.

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!

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.

Instead of asking -- ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask -- ''How much good? How much joy?''

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.

At mestre kunsten at subtil flirt er nøglen til at gøre en pe𝗑ig person tillokkende uden at være åbenlyst aggressiv. In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

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