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You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

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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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
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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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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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