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You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.
Henry Miller
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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
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New York City
New York
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I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
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The best technique is none at all.
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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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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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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I think someday you're going to be a great writer, he said. But he added maliciously, first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.
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There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
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And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest.
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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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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.
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The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
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Music is the can-opener of the soul.
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Writing is its own reward.
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Greece is the home of the gods they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
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Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
Henry Miller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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