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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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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Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.
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The world is always ending the exact date depends on when you came into it.
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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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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change we are only what we always were, but naked now.
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There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.
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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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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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It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
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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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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
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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 camera has its own kind of consciousness in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
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