Quote by Henry Miller
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. – Henry Miller

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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Langs feeble imagination. – Henry Miller

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Future
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. – Henry Miller

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Change
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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? – Henry Miller

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work
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People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise. – Evander Holyfield

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work

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound. – Walter Annenberg

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work

You dont have to turn on the TV set. You dont have to work on the Internet. Its up to you. – Ray Bradbury

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work

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. – Edward Hopper

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work

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The souls emphasis is always right. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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