1444 quotes from Henry Miller: 'The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.', 'A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.', and 'Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.'.
Nov 4, 2014 · The 100 best novels: No 59: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) | Fiction | The Guardian. 'a new gold standard for graphic language and explicit sexuality' …. Henry Miller in Paris in Henry James - Novelist, Realism, Critic: In the 1880s James wrote two novels dealing with social reformers and revolutionaries, The Bostonians (1886) and The Princess Casamassima (1886). In the novel of Boston life, James analyzed the struggle between conservative masculinity embodied in a Southerner living in the North and an embittered man-hating suffragist. The Bostonians remains the the works of Henry Miller. An account of this writer's first meeting with Miller in 1947 is included here; but there is a quality about it more appropriate to the kind of star-struck, adolescent worship of a movie idol than of anything more meaningful. Yet, as I grew away from the influence Miller had on me, I must still credit him withDavid Henry Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, to John and Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau. He had two older siblings, Helen and John, and a younger sister, Sophia. The family moved to Chelmsford in 1818, to Boston in 1821, and back to Concord in 1823. Thoreau had two educations in Concord.