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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "Megalopolitan Maniac," Black Spring (1936).)
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History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Plexus, ch. 12 (1949).)
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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Quiet Days in Clichy, 1991 edition, p. 33 (orig. publ. 1956).)
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The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "Letter to Lafayette," The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945).)
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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.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. "Letter to Lafayette," The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945).)
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It is true I swim in a perpetual sea of sex but the actual excursions are fairly limited.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. letter, Feb. 1, 1932. Letters to Anaοs Nin, pt. 1 (1965).)
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One becomes aware in France, after having lived in America, that sex pervades the air. It's there all around you, like a fluid.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).)
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