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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.
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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
Arthur Miller
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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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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.
Arthur Miller -
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller -
He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!
Arthur Miller -
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur 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
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I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.
Arthur Miller -
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 -
They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England.
Arthur Miller -
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller -
You cut your life down for spite!
Arthur Miller -
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down…. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
Arthur Miller
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I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
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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.
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 -
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
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 -
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
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house - You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
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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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Sit down, Willy.
Arthur Miller