“It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'”

—  Henry Miller , book Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957), p. 32

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American novelist 1891–1980

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