Henry Miller
Birthday:
December 26, 1891 in New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name:
Henry Valentine Miller
Height:
173 cm
Henry Miller was born on December 26, 1891 in New York City, New York, USA as Henry Valentine Miller. He was a writer and actor, known for Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1970), Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1990) and Tropique du cancer (1970). He was married to Hoki Tokuda, Evelyn Byrd (Keven) McClure, Janina Martha Lepska, June Ed...
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Henry Miller was born on December 26, 1891 in New York City, New York, USA as Henry Valentine Miller. He was a writer and actor, known for Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1970), Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1990) and Tropique du cancer (1970). He was married to Hoki Tokuda, Evelyn Byrd (Keven) McClure, Janina Martha Lepska, June Edith Smith and Beatrice Sylvas Wickens. He died on June 7, 1980 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. Show less «
Don't look for miracles. YOU are the miracle.
Don't look for miracles. YOU are the miracle.
I've known it all. Every humiliation, degradation, poverty, starvation
I've known it all. Every humiliation, degradation, poverty, starvation
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
We [Americans] take to dope, the dope which is worse by far than opium or hashish--I mean the newspapers, the radio, the movies. Real dope g...Show more »
We [Americans] take to dope, the dope which is worse by far than opium or hashish--I mean the newspapers, the radio, the movies. Real dope gives you the freedom to dream your own dreams; the American kind forces you to swallow the perverted dreams of men whose only ambition is to hold their job regardless of what they are bidden to do. Show less «
Meaningful acts require no stir. When things are going to rack and ruin the most purposeful act may be to sit still.
Meaningful acts require no stir. When things are going to rack and ruin the most purposeful act may be to sit still.
Strange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely awar...Show more »
Strange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Show less «
Everywhere the grim, monotonous walls loomed up; behind them lived families whose whole life centered about a job. Industrious, patient, amb...Show more »
Everywhere the grim, monotonous walls loomed up; behind them lived families whose whole life centered about a job. Industrious, patient, ambitious slaves whose one aim was emancipation. In the interim putting up with anything; oblivious of discomfort, immune to ugliness. Heroic little souls whose very obsession to liberate themselves from the thraldom of work served only to magnify the squalor and the misery of their lives. Show less «
If you stop still and look at things . . . the world looks absolutely crazy to you. And it is crazy, by God! . . . From the time you wake up...Show more »
If you stop still and look at things . . . the world looks absolutely crazy to you. And it is crazy, by God! . . . From the time you wake up until the moment you go to bed it's all a lie, all a sham and a swindle. Show less «
We need their paper boxes, their buttons, their synthetic furs, their rubber goods, their hosiery, their plastic this and that. We need the ...Show more »
We need their paper boxes, their buttons, their synthetic furs, their rubber goods, their hosiery, their plastic this and that. We need the banker, his genius for taking our money and making himself rich. The insurance man, his policies, and his talk of security, of dividends--we need him too. Do we? I don't see that we need any of these vultures. Show less «
To be born in the street means to wander all your life, to be free. It means accident and incident, drama, movement. It means above all drea...Show more »
To be born in the street means to wander all your life, to be free. It means accident and incident, drama, movement. It means above all dream. A harmony of irrelevant facts which gives to your wandering a metaphysical certitude . . . What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. Show less «
It may be that my works are not literary. Call them whatever you like. I couldn't care less!
It may be that my works are not literary. Call them whatever you like. I couldn't care less!
What I want is to halt evolution, to go backward down the path we have taken, back to the world before childhood, to regress, regress, regre...Show more »
What I want is to halt evolution, to go backward down the path we have taken, back to the world before childhood, to regress, regress, regress, further and further, until we get to the place we have only lately left behind, where culture and civilization do not figure. It is time we start to think, to feel, to see the universe in a way that is uncultivated, primitive--but this is also without a doubt the most difficult thing in the world to do. Show less «
