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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
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Be liked and you will never want.
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The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.
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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
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Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
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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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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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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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The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
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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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The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
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Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
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For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.
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Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
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... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
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The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
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Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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