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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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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
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Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.
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The world is always ending the exact date depends on when you came into it.
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The brain heals the past like an injury.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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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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A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
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A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.
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. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.
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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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There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
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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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The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
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You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
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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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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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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change we are only what we always were, but naked now.
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