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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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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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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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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
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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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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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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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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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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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The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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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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