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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.
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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Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.
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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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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
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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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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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