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The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

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
City
Belly
Skyscrapers
Walking
Magnificent
Citadels
Cities
Rage
Bellies
Modern
Presence
Howling
America
Enormous
Skyscraper
Feels
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Raging
Like
York
Rags
Empty
Fringe
Citadel

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