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... vulgarity has no nation.

Arthur Miller

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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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. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.
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Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew it is the other.
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Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.
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A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
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Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
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Be liked and you will never want.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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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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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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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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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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Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
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