Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
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Henry Miller on Friendship and the Relationship Between Creativity and Community
Hemingway wrote about the first year of their friendship in A Moveable Feast, his reminiscences of his early days as a writer in Paris,
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But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long, close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the e
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Lamb says somewhere that if, of three friends (A, B, and C), A should die, then B loses not only A but “A’s part in C,” while C loses not only A but “A’s part in B.” In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than ... See more
À mes débuts dans la carrière, au temps de mes années parisiennes, j’inventais non seulement en puisant dans ma propre expérience, mais en puisant dans l’expérience et le vécu de mes amis et de tous les gens que j’avais connus ou croisés dans ma vie jusqu’alors, et qui n’étaient pas des écrivains. Mes meilleurs amis n’exerçaient pas ce métier et j’
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