"No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untra...

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The word in your mouth is anarchy.

More Henry Miller quotes
"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
"This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never di...
"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes fri...
"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, t...
"Words are loneliness.