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Music is the can-opener of the soul.

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
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Soul
Music

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People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.
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Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly they underwrite it with their lives.
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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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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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.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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All growth is a leap in the dark.
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We don't trust our five senses we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.
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At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.
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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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The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.
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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 difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
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We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
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Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
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have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.
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Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
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