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Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
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did not like it
bookshelves: read-in-2008, overrated

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Henry Miller
“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller
“...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. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured- disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui- in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off.”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
tags: hope

Henry Miller
“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller
“You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs.”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller
“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer


Reading Progress

Started Reading
October 1, 2008 – Finished Reading
October 8, 2008 – Shelved
October 10, 2008 – Shelved as: read-in-2008
November 5, 2008 – Shelved as: overrated

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