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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. ↗

— Henry Miller

#everything #except #his #man #master

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while. ↗

— Martin Milner

#i #jack #partner #played #radio

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. ↗

— Henry Miller

#false #literature #open #say #street

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ↗

— Henry Miller

#democratic #disease #everything #expresses #herd

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. ↗

— Henry Miller

#constantly #even #frozen #funds #ledger

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. ↗

— Henry Miller

#form #induced #polite #self #torture

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. ↗

— Henry Miller

#condition #disturbed #either #face #forever

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. ↗

— Henry Miller

#carries #dangerous #dead #different #evil

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #confounded #death #entered #ever