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Henry Miller
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HENRY MILLER
The Art of Fiction No. 28
Interviewed by George Wickes
Issue 28, Summer-Fall 1962
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INTERVIEWER
Didn't you say somewhere, "I am for obscenity and against pornography"?

MILLER
Well, it's very simple. The obscene would be the forthright, and pornography would be the roundabout. I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. In other words, obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

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