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Writing is its own reward.

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
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To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
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Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.
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Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
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Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
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Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
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All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
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I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
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People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.
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When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
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