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The quote says that people help shape what happens to them through their daily choices and actions. It also suggests that many problems are not random, but can be connected to behavior we can recognize and change.
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Source
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (2010)
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The phrase appears in the book "Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (2010)" by Henry Miller (Google Books snippet); no earlier source was checked.
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About Henry Miller
American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
Henry Miller was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He became known for reshaping modern prose through semi-autobiographical fiction that mixed personal experience with social criticism, philosophical reflection, stream of consciousness, explicit language, surreal association, and mysticism. His best-known works in this mode include Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, and the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, drawn from his years in New York City and Paris. These books were banned in the United States until 1961. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism, and he painted watercolors.
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The Colossus of Maroussi
1975
Moloch
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