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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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I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
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The city grows like a cancer I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.
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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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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
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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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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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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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Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
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To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
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When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
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Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.
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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
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Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
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Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?
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It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
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