Henry Miller Quotes from Tropic of Capricorn

"Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.": Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1938)
"My people were entirely Nordic, which is to say idiots.": Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1938)
"History may deny it, since I have played no part in the history of my people, but even if everything I say is wrong, is prejudiced, spiteful, malevolent, even if I am a liar and a poisoner, it is nevertheless the truth and it will have to be swallowed.": Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1938)
"The moment you have a 'different' thought you cease to be an American.": Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1938)

rri (August 22, 2010)

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)

rri (April 12, 2005)

"What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)
"For me the book is the man and my book is the man I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful man that I am.": Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)

rri (April 12, 2005)