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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

~Henry Miller

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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

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We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

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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.

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

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Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 26th, 1891

Died: June 7th, 1980

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