"I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable"

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Source : Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

Henry Miller

#Lonely Quotes #Men Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I'm the demonslayer. Come and get me.”
“I don't yearn to be a child again.”
“Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.”

Source : Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.22, Pen and Sword
“Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.”
“Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.”
“The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think theyâ€™d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that weâ€™re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.”
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”
“Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.”

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