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Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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And yet one can't forever stand on the shore at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.
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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
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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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The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
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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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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
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most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory
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It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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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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One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew it is the other.
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People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
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