Henry & June (1990) - Quotes

Understanding Relationships in Henry & June

Henry Miller: She is my fucking wife.

Anaïs Nin: You don't understand your own fucking wife.

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Desire and Possession in Relationships

Anaïs Nin: Possess her like a man. I want to fuck her like a man. Fuck her, Hugo.

Hugo Guiler: I am fucking her, pussy willow.

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Exploring Love and Deception in Relationships

Anaïs Nin: How would you lie to June if you were making love to her?

Hugo Guiler: Making love to her?

Anaïs Nin: Yes. To her body. To her voluptuous body. She is so perverse, so naked. Tell her that you love her.

Hugo Guiler: I love you.

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Love and Experience in Creative Relationships

June Miller: What don't I understand?

Anaïs Nin: That I love you.

June Miller: Love? You just want experience. You're a writer. You make love to whatever you need. You're just like Henry.

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Accusations of Idea Theft in Literature

Richard Osborn: Then he steals my ideas and puts them in his novels.

Anaïs Nin: Henry wouldn't do that, Richard.

Richard Osborn: I'm sure of it.

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Illusions of Love and Marriage

Henry Miller: All right, I'll tell you. June appeared like an Angel, and I offered her a fool's faith. She was a taxi dancer. I paid my dime, she put her head on my shoulder, but then the lies began. She told me her mother was a gypsy and her father was a count. Later, I saw a film and realized she swiped her whole childhood right out of the film.

Anaïs Nin: And so?

Henry Miller: So I married her.

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Meeting of Writers and Their Partners

Henry Miller: Hell of a place you got here, Hugo. Peaceful. Been here long?

Hugo Guiler: Just since the crash.

Hugo Guiler: We lived well. This is Henry Miller, the American writer Osborn is putting up. My wife, Anaïs Nin.

Henry Miller: How are you, Anaïs?

Hugo Guiler: Eduardo Sanchez, Anaïs cousin. Anaïs, you should read Henry's stuff.

Richard Osborn: [[D.H. Lawrence] For my money, he's got it over ].

Anaïs Nin: I'd love to read your writing.

Richard Osborn: He hasn't been published yet.

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Conflict Over Art and Personal Relationships

Henry Miller: I'm not a portrait painter.

June Miller: I'll say you're not. Look what you've done to Anais. You make everything ugly! Beauty is a joke for you. You're so negative. You're a failure as a writer. You're not a man, you're a child! You use women! You used me, you fucker!

Henry Miller: AAAHHH!

June Miller: You fucker!

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Crisis and the Dangers of Abnormal Pleasures

Anaïs Nin: I'm passing through a crisis Eduardo.

Eduardo Sanchez: Be careful Anaïs, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

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Questioning Love and Possession

Hugo Guiler: Does she think she can love anything in you I haven't loved?

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Love Beyond Physical Attraction

Hugo Guiler: You fall in love with people's minds.

Nostalgia for a Lost Moment

June Miller: [Late at night in bed with Anaïs] I don't know why, I keep on thinking of this little Chinese restaurant that Henry and I used to go after I got off work. He'd wait for me outside the dance hall at two in the mornin', then we'd rush through the freezin cold holding each other tight. We'd get there just before closing time sit in a booth by the window eatin chow mein, watchin the snow swirl by. There was some kind of unbelievable thrill in the air between us. I feel kind of haunted by it now. Chin Lees. Its funny, it seems like a dream.

Perception and Reality in Relationships

June Miller: [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky|Dostoyevsky] It's a distortion. Henry, Look at me! Look! You can't see me or anyone as they are! I wanted ]!

Desire for Freedom Through Intoxication

June Miller: I wanna be drunk. And make... you drunk. Because I'm intimidated by you. I need to feel free to say anything, and know that you'll forgive me.

Conflicted Morality and Mastery in Actions

June Miller: I've done the vilest things - the foulest things - but I've done them... superbly.

The Divine Art of Dance

Henry Miller: I'd believe only in a god that understood how to dance. Isn't that something?

Celebrating Liberation and Friendship

Henry Miller: And that's our task. Liberation. Freedom. Let's toast to Lawrence. Let's toast to our defects. Toast, to our friendship. Drink cold, piss warm.