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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
Essayist
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New York City
New York
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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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Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
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We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.
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I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.
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Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
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If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond 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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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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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 only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
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Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.
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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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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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Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
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The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
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There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.
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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
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