H. T. Miller Quotes

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.

Cluster together like stars!

Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

The best technique is none at all.

Keep your exclamation points under control!

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.

We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

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There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, There is only one To-day.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.