Henry Miller Quotes from Tropic of Cancer

"There are no more books to be written, thank God.": Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)
"There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.": Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (1934)

"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)