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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.
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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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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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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I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
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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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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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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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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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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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Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
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The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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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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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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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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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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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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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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