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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
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Arthur Asher Miller
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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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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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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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
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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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Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.
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Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
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I speak my own sins I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
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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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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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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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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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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
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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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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
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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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