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If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
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
Arthur Asher Miller
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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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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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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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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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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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. . 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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The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
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Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
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Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.
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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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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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And yet one can't forever stand on the shore at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.
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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change we are only what we always were, but naked now.
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I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.
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