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The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
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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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Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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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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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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Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.
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There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
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He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
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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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