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No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
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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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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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
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I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.
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What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
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Writing is its own reward.
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Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
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What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.
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There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
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I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.
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They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark.
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He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
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Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.
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Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
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I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
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Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
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Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
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The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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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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