Henry Miller idézet

Henry Valentine Miller amerikai író, festő. Kortársai jellemzően botrányszerzőnek tekintették, amiért írásaiban szembeszállt kora szigorú, bigott erkölcsiségével. A XX. század eleji puritán társadalmak legalapvetőbb tabuit sem tartotta tiszteletben, alkotásai sokakat megbotránkoztattak. Magánéletével is alátámasztotta regényeiben tükröződő mentalitását, ugyanis ötször nősült, és házasságon kívüli kapcsolatai is ismertek voltak. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. december 1891 – 7. június 1980   •   Más nevek Henry Valentine Miller
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Henry Miller: Idézetek angolul

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One

“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”

Forrás: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941), p. 46

“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”

Henry Miller könyv Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Változat: Often misquoted as "One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things".
Forrás: Miller, H. (1957). Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

“Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Kontextus: Well, I'll take these pages and move on. Things are happening elsewhere. Things are always happening. It seems wherever I go there is drama. People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.

“Words are loneliness.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”

Forrás: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Capricorn

A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose.
Forrás: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) "Creative Death", p. 2

“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer

“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer

“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”

Henry Miller könyv Tropic of Cancer

Forrás: Tropic of Cancer

“Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal.”

Forrás: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 400

“We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

1945 Source: [Kaufman, Charlie, Inspirational Writing Advice From Charlie Kaufman - On Writing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs, YouTube, BAFTA Guru, 2017-01-06, 2020-03-09] (at 7:08 of 41:08)