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'Life', said Emerson, consists in what a man is thinking all day. If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

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
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
Emerson
Intestines
Consists
Bigs
Nothing
Men
Thinking
Life
Intestine

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