Henry Miller: Frases en inglés (página 9)
Henry Miller era novelista estadounidense. Frases en inglés.Reflections (1981)
“Sleep, Napoleon! It was not your ideas they wanted, it was your corpse.”
Fuente: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter Four
“The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.”
Sunday after the war (1944), pub. New Directions.
Reflections (1981)
“The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.”
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
Reflections (1981)
The Rosy Crucifixion I : Sexus (1949), Chapter 1. (New York: Grove Press, c1965, p. 17-18)
I clamored. In a frantic effort to arrive at some kind of order, some tentative working program, I would sit down quietly now and then and spend long, long hours mapping out a plan of procedure. Plans, such as architects and engineers sweat over, were never my forte. But I could always visualize my dreams in a cosmogonic pattern. Though I could never formulate a plot I could balance and weigh opposing forces, characters, situations, events, distribute them in a sort of heavenly lay-out, always with plenty of space between, always with the certitude that there is no end, only worlds within worlds ad infinitum, and that wherever one left off one had created a world, a world finite, total, complete.
The Rosy Crucifixion II : Plexus (1953)
“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”
"The Enormous Womb", p. 96
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
“It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'”
Fuente: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 32
“He saw the humorous aspect of everything, which is the real test of the tragic sense.”
"He" is Miller's friend George Katsimbalis, the "Colossus" of the book's title.
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
Fuente: Henry Miller on Writing (1964), p. 23