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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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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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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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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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