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The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
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It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
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Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.
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Be liked and you will never want.
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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 speak my own sins I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
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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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most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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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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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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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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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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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
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It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
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