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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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Arthur Asher Miller
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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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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.
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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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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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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
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I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
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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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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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The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.
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People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
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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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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
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... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
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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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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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When the guns roar, the arts die.
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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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