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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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It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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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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I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.
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Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
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If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.
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To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.
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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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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
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The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
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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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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
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