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We shared many of the same writers, but the main thing we shared together was a desire for freedom in the writing.

— Anaïs Nin on what she and Henry Miller shared, interviewed by Frank Roberts, KPFK radio, 1965

There has always been two Millers, one the world has known and a very different one registered in these letters and in the diary.

— Anaïs Nin on Henry Miller's letters to her, interviewed by Frank Roberts, KPFK radio, 1965

I was very sorry that it was published first, because I suppose many people would pick that up and read it and never know the other Miller. The other Miller is the one I championed.

— Anaïs Nin on Tropic of Cancer, interviewed by Frank Roberts, KPFK radio, 1965

I do not object to obscenity or realism, but explicitness. It all needed to be blurred like a line in a watercolor. The outline must be less definite.

— Anaïs Nin, reading aloud from her early diary in the 1965 KPFK interview with Frank Roberts

We used to say all the time, Rimbaud's command was obey the disorder, try to disorganize the consciousness so that you would be able to penetrate other realms

— Anaïs Nin putting Rimbaud's idea in her own words, interviewed by Frank Roberts, KPFK radio, 1965

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