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Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

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
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Arthur Asher Miller
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Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew it is the other.
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A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
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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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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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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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... vulgarity has no nation.
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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change we are only what we always were, but naked now.
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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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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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I'm the end of the line absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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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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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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Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
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