{"author":"Henry Miller","author_id":"Henry+Miller","total_quotes":155,"quotes":[{"text":"They never opened the door which leads to the soul.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["literary","spiritual"],"id":7927,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["boredom","hopelessness"],"id":9074,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["short","greatest","long "],"id":10386,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["potential"],"id":16165,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["holy-spirit","judgment","law","morality","spirit"],"id":17214,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["dance","live","sing"],"id":17664,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["defeat","failure","strength"],"id":21142,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["art","extremes"],"id":24007,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["work","good","great "],"id":25156,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["courage"],"id":26520,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":155,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}