Arthur Miller Quotes - Page 2

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• 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!

  Arthur Miller

  Children, Crazy, Writing

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.339, Penguin

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• The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Order, Intellectual

  "Federalism and the French Canadians". Book by Pierre Trudeau (p. 175), 1968.

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• The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

  Arthur Miller

  Apples, Tree, Stuck

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

  Arthur Miller

  Memorable, Today, Tomorrow

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.7, Penguin

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• If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

  Arthur Miller

  Want, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from Apr 08, 2015

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• The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

  Arthur Miller

  Enemy

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• Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

  Arthur Miller

  Distance, Two, Evil

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• My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Issues, Years

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

  Arthur Miller

  Art, War, Politician

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• 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

  Men, Tough, Sometimes

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• I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

  Arthur Miller

  Hysteria, Judging, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

  Arthur Miller

  Mistake, Men, Thumbs

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.131, Penguin

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• Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Command Not, Order

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• I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

  Arthur Miller

  Work, Believe, Mean

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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.

  Arthur Miller

  People, Mind, Liberty

  "Why I Wrote 'The Crucible'". The New Yorker, October 21, 1996.

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

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Block, July

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• A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

  Arthur Miller

  Political, Moral, Malevolence

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Without alienation, there can be no politics.

  Arthur Miller

  Politics, Alienation

  1988 In Marxism Today, Jan.

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• The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

  Arthur Miller

  Jobs, Humility, Questions And Answers

  National Observer, January 20, 1964.

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• I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
  never met any.

  Arthur Miller

  Great Business, Mets, Businessman

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• Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

  Arthur Miller

  Home, Agony, Hysteria

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• 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

  Art, Expecting, Playwriting

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

  Arthur Miller

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.23, Penguin

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• 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

  Success, Creativity, Men

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• What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, People, Insane

  "With respect for Her Agony - but with Love" in LIFE magazine, February 7, 1964.

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