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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
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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Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
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I speak my own sins I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
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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 Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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