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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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Arthur Asher Miller
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.
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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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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.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
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The camera has its own kind of consciousness in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
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Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.
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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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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
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Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.
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There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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