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I didnt have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was

I didnt have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, lets say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! – Henry Miller

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Its silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. – Henry Miller

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The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. – Henry Miller

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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. – Henry Miller

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Every moment and every event of every mans life on earth plants something in his soul. – Thomas Merton

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. – William Feather

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Star Wars is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. Its what they want. – George Lucas

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