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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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There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
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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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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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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.
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Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
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I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
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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.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
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The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
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It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
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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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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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The world is always ending the exact date depends on when you came into it.
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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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A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
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