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The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
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