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You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
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All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
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I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
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They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.
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I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.
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The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
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Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
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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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The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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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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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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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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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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It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
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Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
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And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
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