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Quote by Henry Miller
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few,

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. – 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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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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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. – Malcolm Arnold

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I didnt know folk music growing up, no. Its something Ive come to study, really, because I think theres so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels. – P. J. Harvey

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Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart. – Frank Luntz

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