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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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The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.
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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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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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Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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