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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
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New York City
New York
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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.
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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.
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The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
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Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
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All growth is a leap in the dark.
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I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
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When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
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What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.
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Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
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He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
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We don't trust our five senses we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.
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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
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Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined him to be. He came from the blue and returns to the blue. He has not perished, he is not lost. Neither will he be forgotten.
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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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