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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

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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
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve.
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Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.
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