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Actors die so loud.
[ Acting and Actors ]
Henry Miller
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
[ Growth ]
Henry Miller
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An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
[ Solitude ]
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
[ Chaos ]
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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
[ Confusion ]
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
[ Books - Classics ]
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
[ Decay ]
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
[ Ambition ]
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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
[ Creation ]
Henry Miller
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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.
[ Isolation ]
Henry Miller
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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
[ Meaning of Life ]
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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
[ Procrastination ]
Henry Miller
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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.
[ Human Nature ]
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
[ Music ]
Henry Miller
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Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
[ Obscenity ]
Henry Miller
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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
[ Attitude ]
Henry Miller
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Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
[ Repentance ]
Henry Miller
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Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
[ Sex ]
Henry Miller
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Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
[ Knowledge ]
Henry Miller
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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
[ Youth ]
Henry Miller
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
Henry Miller
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The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
[ Mind ]
Henry Miller
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The world is the mirror of myself dying.
[ Death and Dying ]
Henry Miller
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
[ Sex ]
Henry Miller
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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
[ Literature ]
Henry Miller
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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
[ Force ]
Henry Miller
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Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
[ Judaism and Jews ]
Henry Miller
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You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
[ Food and Eating ]
Henry Miller
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