American - Author | December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry Miller
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
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When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
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If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
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