Keith Miller Quotes & Sayings

#1. Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

#2. I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

#3. It may seem an easy task to disregard a secret but secrets are like splinters beneath the flesh, the infection spreads and spreads and then the limb turns gangrenous and must be sawn away, all for the sake of a sliver of wood.

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#4. But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

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#5. He went to sleep as soon as they'd gone, waking in the middle of the night and walking outside into a sky whose stars hung so low he felt he strolled among them and he could see indeed, so clear the air, the very flames of their inner workings.

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#6. There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

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#7. The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

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#8. Twilight is the hour I love,' he told her, 'the hour where nothing is quite itself, all things teetering at the edges of their names. Here I can be alone and a stranger to myself.

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#9. If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

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#10. The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

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#11. Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

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#12. Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars,' she told him, 'and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night.

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#13. I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

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#14. I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

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#15. Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast.

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#16. This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life!

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#17. You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

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#18. In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

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#19. We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

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#20. What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

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#21. I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

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#22. I am too old to think.

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#23. The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

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#24. I was taught that pain is bad.

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#25. Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

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#26. Reading is the strangest art. Your eye takes a shape, turns it into music, then story, then spirit, so a curl of ink laid long ago by a sliver of reed can become, a thousand years later, your own breath.

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#27. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

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#28. A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

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#29. The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

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#30. A city of squalls, foggy mornings, intervals of blue and white so immaculate the eyes ached. A city of readers, coffee drinkers, kissers on sidewalks, sad faces at wet windows. A city of umbrellas, woolen scarves, raincoats, cigarettes, wineglasses, cognac.

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#31. We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

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#32. And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the pour of the words up from the leaves, through the soft light, into his eyes, the mute voice in his ears.

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#33. No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

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#34. Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

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#35. We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

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#36. All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

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#37. A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

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#38. My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

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#39. Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

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#40. I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

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#41. A drunkenness brought on by gulped beer on an empty stomach produces raucous sniping, atrocious singing, nausea. But a tizzy induced by impeccable wine slowly sipped during a marvelous meal and burnished by a superb brandy elicits miraculous conversation.

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#42. Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

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#43. We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

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#44. Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.

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#45. I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

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#46. I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

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#47. I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

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#48. Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

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