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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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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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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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