Henry Miller's Quote - It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a dem

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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a dem

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. – Henry Miller

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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. – Henry Miller

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An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. – Henry Miller

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. – Henry Miller

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A womans best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. – Lawrence Durrell

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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. – E. M. Forster

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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal

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