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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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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 small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
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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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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.
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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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
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... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
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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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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
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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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Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
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How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
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Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
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I'm the end of the line absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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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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