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I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
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I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
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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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I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me.
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The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
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I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire and bloody damnation. Take it to heart, Mr. Parris. There are many others who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
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Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
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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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It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. … much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence. But what is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. The perfection of innocence, indeed, is madness.
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Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
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Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
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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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My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time — we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
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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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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
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Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
No tragedy can therefore come about when its author fears to question absolutely everything, when he regards any institution, habit or custom as being either everlasting, immutable or inevitable. In the tragic view the need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star, and whatever it is that hedges his nature and lowers it is ripe for attack and examination.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
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Born:
October 17, 1915
Died:
February 10, 2005
(aged 89)
Bio:
Arthur Asher Miller was a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge.
Known for:
The Crucible (1953)
Death of a Salesman (1949)
All My Sons (1947)
A View from the Bridge (1955)
After the Fall (1964)
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