Quote #30

The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.

More from Henry Miller

  1. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
  2. Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
  3. I soon learned that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write write write.
  4. The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have …
  5. To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.
  6. The Battle is endless...we who babble and froth at the mouth have been at it since eternity.
  7. The frantic desire to Live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us , but of the death rhythm.
  8. Perhaps the artist is nothing more than the personification of this universal maladjustment, this universal disequilibrium.

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