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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 Lang's feeble imagination. "

Henry Miller

Future

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Imagination

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" Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. "

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Back

Creation

" In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. "

" The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. "

" The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. "

" I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. "

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Resources

Money

" In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. "

" Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. "

" Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. "

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Mystery

Learn

" 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. "

" Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. "

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End

Art

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" We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. "

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