Henry Miller Quotes from Tropic of Cancer

"The telephone interrrupts this thought which I should never have been able to complete."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)

"A glance at that dark, unstitched wound and a deep fissure in my brain opens up: all the images and memories that had been laboriously or absent-mindedly assorted, labelled, documented, files, sealed and stamped break forth pellmell like ants pouring out of a crack in the sidewalk; the world ceases to revolve, time stops, the very nexus of my dreams is broken and dissolved and my guts spill out in a grand schizophrenic rush, an evacuation that leaves me face to face with the Absolute."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)

"If there were a man who dared say all that he thought of this world there would not be left him a square foot of ground to stand on."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)

"Going back in a flash over the women I've known. It's like a chain which I've forged out of my own misery. Each one bound to the other."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)

"It's a wonderful thing, for half an hour, to have money in your pocket and piss it away like a drunken sailor. You feel as though the world is yours. And the best part of it is, you don't know what to do with it."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)

"Human beings make strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; up close they are apt to appear ugly and malicious."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)

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