Reads tagged with “Henry Miller”

Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
“To have a friend who understands and appreciates your work, one who never lets you down but who becomes more devoted, more reverent, as the years go by, that is a rare experience.”

Control for Surrender: Henry Miller’s Stunning Letter to Anaïs Nin About the Value of and the Antidote to Despair
“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance.”

To Paint Is to Love Again: Henry Miller on Art and Why Good Friends Are Essential for Creative Work
“What sustains the artist is the look of love in the eyes of the beholder. Not money, not the right connections, not exhibitions, not flattering reviews.”

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.”

Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers
Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

Henry Miller on the Secret to Growth, in Art and in Life
“The reality is always there, and it is preceded by vision. And if one keeps looking steadily the vision crystallizes into fact or deed. There is no escaping it. It doesn’t matter what route one travels.”

The Art of Not-Having-to-Ask, from Buddhist Monks to Amanda Palmer by Way of Thoreau
How to unlearn everything our transactionalist culture has taught us about “the market” and relearn our natural open-handed generosity.

Henry Miller on Money and How the Hedonic Treadmill of Material Rewards Entraps Us
“The dilemma in which we find ourselves today is that no matter how much we increase the purchasing power of the wage-earner he never has enough.”

Henry Miller’s Notice to Visitors
“When you come please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate… Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere.”

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