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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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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Painter
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New York City
New York
Genri Miller
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The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.
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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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The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
Henry Miller
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller
Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
Henry Miller
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller
What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
Henry Miller
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
Henry Miller
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.
Henry Miller
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.
Henry Miller
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
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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.
Henry Miller
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
Henry Miller
When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.
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We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
Henry Miller
My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.
Henry Miller
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.
Henry Miller
I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.
Henry Miller
