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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!
Arthur Miller
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Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!
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We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing!
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You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!
Arthur Miller
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever 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. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?
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We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
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The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there - it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
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A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller -
Why must everybody like you?
Arthur Miller
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We're free and clear, Willy. We're free, we're free, we're free...
Arthur Miller -
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself
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Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.
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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
Arthur Miller -
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
Arthur Miller
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Arthur Miller