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Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in 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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Arthur Asher Miller
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Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
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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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The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
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The world is always ending the exact date depends on when you came into it.
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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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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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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
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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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One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
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Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
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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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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
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