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I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
Henry Miller
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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
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New York City
New York
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Henri Miller
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
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Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.
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I think someday you're going to be a great writer, he said. But he added maliciously, first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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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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We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.
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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
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Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.
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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
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The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
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The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.
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Imagination is the voice of the daring.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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Words are loneliness.
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