Quote

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.

Arthur Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
History
Mines
Two
Mine
States
National
Truly
Friend
Events
United
Depression
War
Civil

More quotes by Arthur Miller

Image
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.
Arthur Miller
Image
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur Miller
Image
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.
Arthur Miller
Image
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
Arthur Miller
Image
... vulgarity has no nation.
Arthur Miller
Image
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller
Image
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
Arthur Miller
Image
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
Arthur Miller
Image
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.
Arthur Miller
Image
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
Arthur Miller
Image
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller
Image
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Arthur Miller
Image
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.
Arthur Miller
Image
The Devil is precise the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
Arthur Miller
Image
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
Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
Arthur Miller
Image
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
Arthur Miller
Image
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.
Arthur Miller
Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
Arthur Miller
Image
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur Miller