It is the obscene horror, the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. It is this great yawning gulf of nothingness which the creative spirits and mothers of the race carry between their legs.
("Tropic of Cancer")
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We have been educated to such a fine or dull point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.Henry Miller
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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Its good to be just plain happy its a little better to know that youre happy but to understand that youre happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
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He lives to express himself, and in so doing, enriches the world.
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The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
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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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