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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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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A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
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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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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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I cannot sleep for dreaming I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
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It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
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Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.
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The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul leave me my name!
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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