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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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Arthur Asher Miller
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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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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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A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
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Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.
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For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.
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It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
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The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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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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It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
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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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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
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