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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.
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The brain heals the past like an injury.
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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change we are only what we always were, but naked now.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
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There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.
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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
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A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
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We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
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A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
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A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.
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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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