Henry Miller’s Stationery

December 24,2004

Henry had no truck with bullshit, the ministry position or the bourgeoisie. He came down heavily on the side of the exploited, the down-at-heel, and the downright poor. The Portuguese proverb he carried at the bottom of his personal stationery speaks for his compassion.

Cuando merda tiver valor pobre nasce sem cu.
[“When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without arseholes.”]




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