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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

~Henry Miller

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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

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Actors die so loud.

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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

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I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 26th, 1891

Died: June 7th, 1980

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