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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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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
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Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.
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Better to separate than never to marry.
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Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
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At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.
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Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.
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The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
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For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.
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No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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