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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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New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
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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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The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
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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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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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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
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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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A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
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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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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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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
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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 brain heals the past like an injury.
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