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Arthur Miller quotes: I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
Arthur Miller quotes: It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe. It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
Arthur Miller quotes: A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors. A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
Arthur Miller quotes: 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. 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.
Arthur Miller quotes: Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow. 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 quotes: A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
Arthur Miller quotes: Show them a stony heart and sink them with it Show them a stony heart and sink them with it
Arthur Miller quotes: The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone ... The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone ...
Arthur Miller quotes: The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
Arthur Miller quotes: Without alienation, there can be no politics. Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller quotes: 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. 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.
Arthur Miller quotes: There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
Arthur Miller quotes: The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
Arthur Miller quotes: Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
Arthur Miller quotes: There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits
Arthur Miller quotes: It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
Arthur Miller quotes: I am still feeling kinda temporary about myself I am still feeling kinda temporary about myself
Arthur Miller quotes: On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you
Arthur Miller quotes: A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller quotes: A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger. A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.
Arthur Miller quotes: To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.
Arthur Miller quotes: What a woman! They broke the mould when they made her. What a woman! They broke the mould when they made her.
Arthur Miller quotes: When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich. When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.
Arthur Miller quotes: When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
Arthur Miller quotes: PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I sayI sayGod is dead! PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say
I say
God is dead!
Arthur Miller quotes: Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller quotes: The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Arthur Miller quotes: When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back. When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.
Arthur Miller quotes: I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know ...
Arthur Miller quotes: He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
Arthur Miller quotes: Sometimes ... it's better for a man just to walk away.But if you can't walk away?I guess that's when it's tough. Sometimes ... it's better for a man just to walk away.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess that's when it's tough.
Arthur Miller quotes: It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
Arthur Miller quotes: I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again. I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
Arthur Miller quotes: I still feel-kind of temporary about myself. I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.
Arthur Miller quotes: I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop? I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?
Arthur Miller quotes: That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
Arthur Miller quotes: You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore
Arthur Miller quotes: If I see an ending, I can work backward. If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Arthur Miller quotes: I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!
Arthur Miller quotes: it's the proper morning to fly into Hell. it's the proper morning to fly into Hell.
Arthur Miller quotes: we are only what we always were we are only what we always were
Arthur Miller quotes: The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
Arthur Miller quotes: The brain heals the past like an injury ... The brain heals the past like an injury ...
Arthur Miller quotes: There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame. There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.
Arthur Miller quotes: The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
Arthur Miller quotes: The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell. The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.
Arthur Miller quotes: How can they whip cheese? How can they whip cheese?
Arthur Miller quotes: You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
Arthur Miller quotes: Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.
Arthur Miller quotes: Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Arthur Miller quotes: Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Arthur Miller quotes: Yes, the day the world ended and nobody was innocent again. God, how swiftly it all fell down! Yes, the day the world ended and nobody was innocent again. God, how swiftly it all fell down!
Arthur Miller quotes: Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness. Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
Arthur Miller quotes: In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another. In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.
Arthur Miller quotes: All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space
Arthur Miller quotes: I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father. I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
Arthur Miller quotes: You want somethin' else, Eddie, and you can never have her! You want somethin' else, Eddie, and you can never have her!
Arthur Miller quotes: Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller quotes: Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain. Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.
Arthur Miller quotes: I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
Arthur Miller quotes: All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen. All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
Arthur Miller quotes: The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
Arthur Miller quotes: Suicide kills two people. Suicide kills two people.
Arthur Miller quotes: Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
Arthur Miller quotes: But you didn't rest your mind. your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear But you didn't rest your mind. your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear
Arthur Miller quotes: You have made your magic now You have made your magic now
Arthur Miller quotes: I'll tell u boys it's tough to be alone,and it's tough to love a doll that's not ur own. I'll tell u boys it's tough to be alone,
and it's tough to love a doll that's not ur own.
Arthur Miller quotes: Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
Arthur Miller quotes: John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court! John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court!
Arthur Miller quotes: You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller quotes: Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
Arthur Miller quotes: I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act. I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Arthur Miller quotes: Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
Arthur Miller quotes: Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard. Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
Arthur Miller quotes: Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
Arthur Miller quotes: There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
Arthur Miller quotes: What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women! What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
Arthur Miller quotes: In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell. In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.
Arthur Miller quotes: If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact. If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.
Arthur Miller quotes: Knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here? Knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here?
Arthur Miller quotes: A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
Arthur Miller quotes: I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
Arthur Miller quotes: Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked. Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.
Arthur Miller quotes: An everlasting funeral marches round your heart. An everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
Arthur Miller quotes: I am a good woman. I know it. I am a good woman. I know it.
Arthur Miller quotes: The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
Arthur Miller quotes: When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now
Arthur Miller quotes: I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Arthur Miller quotes: You want to live? You better figure out your life. You want to live? You better figure out your life.
Arthur Miller quotes: I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything. I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
Arthur Miller quotes: There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life. There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.
Arthur Miller quotes: The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
Arthur Miller quotes: A suicide kills two people ... that's what it's for. A suicide kills two people ... that's what it's for.
Arthur Miller quotes: 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. 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 quotes: When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day. When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day.
Arthur Miller quotes: 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. 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.
Arthur Miller quotes: Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.
Arthur Miller quotes: When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man. When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.
Arthur Miller quotes: The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it. The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.
Arthur Miller quotes: The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians. The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

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