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The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.
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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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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The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
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The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
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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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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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It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
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A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
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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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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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I'm the end of the line absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
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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 brain heals the past like an injury.
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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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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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They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
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