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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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Crucible

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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 Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
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How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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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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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
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And yet one can't forever stand on the shore at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.
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I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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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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I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know.
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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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