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THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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I speak my own sins I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
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