New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless. Henry Miller
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  3. In some neighborhoods, faces mature faster than bodies. - Brandon Stanton

  4. When you're single, your weekend days are wide-open vistas that extend in every direction; in a relationship, they're like the sky over Manhattan: punctured, hemmed in, compressed. - Adelle Waldman

  5. Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does - Groucho Marx

More Quotes By Henry Miller
  1. What's a fuck when what I want is love?

  2. Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

  3. Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  4. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  5. Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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