Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!
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Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
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A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.
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You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
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Personality always wins the day.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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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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Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!
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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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I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!
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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
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Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.
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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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There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it.
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.