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... vulgarity has no nation.

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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
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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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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We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
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I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.
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The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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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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I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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The camera has its own kind of consciousness in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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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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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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Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
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