The moment you praise a book too highly you waken a resistance in your listener.
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Morally, spiritually, we are fettered. What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before. To call such activity progress is utter delusion.
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Birth: | 26th December, 1891 |
Death: | 7th June, 1980 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Painter |
Henry Valentine Miller was born in Yorkville, Manhattan, USA. He was an American novelist and painter. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer(novel), Black Sprin(novel), Tropic of Capricorn(novel), and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy(novel), all of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris. He was a close friend of the French painter Grégoire Michonze. It is estimated that Miller painted 2,000 watercolors during his life, and that 50 or more major collections of Miller’s paintings exist.
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