
„Amerika gibt es nicht. Es ist ein Name, den man einer abstrakten Idee verleiht.“
Wendekreis des Krebses, 1932
Henry Valentine Miller war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Maler.
„Amerika gibt es nicht. Es ist ein Name, den man einer abstrakten Idee verleiht.“
Wendekreis des Krebses, 1932
Tropic of Capricorn
„Jeder mit den Klassikern vollgestopfte Mensch ist ein Feind der Menschheit.“
Wendekreis des Krebses, 1932
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Quelle: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”
Quelle: The Wisdom of the Heart (1941), p. 46
“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”
Variante: Often misquoted as "One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things".
Quelle: Miller, H. (1957). Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One
Kontext: Well, I'll take these pages and move on. Things are happening elsewhere. Things are always happening. It seems wherever I go there is drama. People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.
“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
Quelle: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose.
Quelle: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) "Creative Death", p. 2
“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer
“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer
“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”
Quelle: Tropic of Cancer
Quelle: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 400
1945 Source: [Kaufman, Charlie, Inspirational Writing Advice From Charlie Kaufman - On Writing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs, YouTube, BAFTA Guru, 2017-01-06, 2020-03-09] (at 7:08 of 41:08)