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...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
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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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
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Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
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The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
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The world is always ending the exact date depends on when you came into it.
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
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A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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Be liked and you will never want.
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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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.
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The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
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Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.
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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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The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
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I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.
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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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