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This is not a
book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This
is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this
is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a
kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love,
Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a
little off key perhaps, but I will sing.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
Until it is
kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave
it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic
are but dead hieroglyphs.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
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.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
A book is a
part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a
tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own
laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep,
hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse,
the heart beat.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
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Books are not
absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of
life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they
are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and
extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
Deep versed in
books and shallow in himself.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
For books are
not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life
in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they
are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy
and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I
know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as
those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down,
may chance to spring up armed men.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
Who kills a
man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who
destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
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