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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
Cutting
Looking
American
Way
Things
Oceans
World
Isolation
Sea
Ocean

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