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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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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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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
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It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
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A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew it is the other.
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
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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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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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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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Be liked and you will never want.
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The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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