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Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away. — Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. — Arthur Miller

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

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

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. — Arthur Miller

Show them a stony heart and sink them with it — Arthur Miller

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone ... — Arthur Miller

So many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock. — Arthur Miller

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal. — Arthur Miller

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? — Arthur Miller

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. — Arthur Miller

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. — Arthur Miller

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. — Arthur Miller

Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this! — Arthur Miller

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. — Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out, — Arthur Miller

You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces. — Arthur Miller

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. — Arthur Miller

On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you — Arthur Miller

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller

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

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live. — Arthur Miller

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back. — Arthur Miller

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

Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere. — Arthur Miller

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

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. — Arthur Miller

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody o live in it. — Arthur Miller

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it. — Arthur Miller

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. — Arthur Miller

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

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. — Arthur Miller

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself. — Arthur Miller

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

I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! — Arthur Miller

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

To admit what you see endangers principles. — Arthur Miller

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. — Arthur Miller

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller

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

When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day. — Arthur Miller

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within. — Arthur Miller

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away. — Arthur Miller

I am a good woman. I know it. — Arthur Miller

Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor. — Arthur Miller

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

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

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. — Arthur Miller

You want to live? You better figure out your life. — Arthur Miller

I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything. — Arthur Miller

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. — Arthur Miller

Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere. — Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. — Arthur Miller

A suicide kills two people ... that's what it's for. — Arthur Miller

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. — Arthur Miller

He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people. — Arthur Miller

Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller. — Nicholas Samstag

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

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. — Arthur Miller

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter]. — Rebecca Miller

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

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us. — Arthur Miller

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. — Arthur Miller

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

I only ask you one thing- don't trust nobody — Arthur Miller

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. — Arthur Miller

A wild thing may say wild things. But not so wild, I think. — Arthur Miller

Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. — Arthur Miller

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.
Willy: Then what have I got to remember? — Arthur Miller

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen. — Arthur Miller

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women! — Arthur Miller

If you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries? — Arthur Miller

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

If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact. — Arthur Miller

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh. — Arthur Miller

Knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here? — Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. — Arthur Miller

More Weight
-Giles Corey- — Arthur Miller

Suicide kills two people. — Arthur Miller

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it. — Arthur Miller

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians. — Arthur Miller

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. — Arthur Miller

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. — Arthur Miller

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. — Arthur Miller

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. — Arthur Miller

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he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same! — Arthur Miller

A book, a poem, a play - they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers or an automobile tire. — Arthur Miller

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. — Arthur Miller

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

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller

But you didn't rest your mind. your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear — Arthur Miller

You have made your magic now — Arthur Miller

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

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

John Proctor: I will fall like an ocean on that court! — Arthur Miller

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. — Arthur Miller

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society. — Arthur Miller