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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.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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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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When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
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I cannot sleep for dreaming I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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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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