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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

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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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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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul leave me my name!
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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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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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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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A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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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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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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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
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