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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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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
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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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The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.
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I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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