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• Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.

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  Writing, Adventure, Discovery

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous.

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  Food, Paris, Cooking

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• There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

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  Men, Work Out, Long

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• Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

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  Hate, Judaism, Jew

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• I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

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  Believe, Cold, Coming Out

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

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  Artist, America, Individuality

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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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  Chaos, Ghost, Midst

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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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.

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  Writing, Men, Paper

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

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  Reader, Skip

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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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  Criticism, Five Senses, Creation

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.166, New Directions Publishing

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• The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

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  Art, Practice, Self

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• The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

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  Contentment, Difficult, Contentment And Peace

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Doors, Soul

  "Tropic of Capricorn".

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• I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.

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  Running, Jobs, Love You

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• The purpose of life is to remember.

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  Purpose, Remember, Life Is

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• I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

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  Book, Believe, Soul

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Progress, Insane, Enlightenment

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• The best technique is none at all.

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  Technique

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

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  Falling In Love, Selfish, Thinking

  "Tropic of Cancer".

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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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  Writing, Trying, Viruses

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.

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  Wise, Strong, Love You

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• The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

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  Fear, Reality, Tragedy

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.335, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Broken Heart, Past, Thinking

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

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  War, Men, Space

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

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  Crazy, Struggle, Mad

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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