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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
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
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We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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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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Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
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I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.
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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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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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What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.
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The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.
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The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
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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.
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We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
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I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.
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We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
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After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
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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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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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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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Music is the can-opener of the soul.
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