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• An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

  Arthur Miller

  God, Children, Believe

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• I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

  Arthur Miller

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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• A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

  Arthur Miller

  Roots, Long, People

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• The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

  Arthur Miller

  Oysters, Cracks, World

  'Death of a Salesman' (1949) act 1

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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.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Ignorance, Play

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.174, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

  Arthur Miller

  Self, Humans, Oneself

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.345, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Arthur Miller

  Theatre, Theater, Fascinating

  The New York Times, May 9, 1984.

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• When the guns roar, the arts die.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Gun, Dies

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• A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

  Arthur Miller

  Order, Play, Unity

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• Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

  Arthur Miller

  Reading, Simple, Actors

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• You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

  Arthur Miller

  World, Firsts, Being There

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• I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

  Arthur Miller

  New York, Lines, May

  1989 In The Times,11 Jan.

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• Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

  Arthur Miller

  Forget

  Arthur Miller (2015). “All My Sons”, p.91, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  War, Men, Views

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

  Arthur Miller

  People, Fronts

  Arthur Miller (2003). “The Crucible”, p.21, Penguin

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

  Arthur Miller

  Kids, Dollars, Remember

  Arthur Miller (1995). “A View from the Bridge”, p.14, Heinemann

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

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Way, Playwright

  The New York Times, February 9, 1986.

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• The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

  Arthur Miller

  Photography, Garden, Eden

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.463, A&C Black

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• The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

  Arthur Miller

  Children, Shopping, Wife

  'The Price' (1968) act 1

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• The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

  Arthur Miller

  Stars, Men, Needs

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

  Arthur Miller

  Inspiration, Talking, Journalism

  In Observer 26 Nov. 1961

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• Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

  Arthur Miller

  Lying, Dust, Names

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.90, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

  Arthur Miller

  Spiritual, Children, Mind

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• The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Play, People

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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• Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

  Arthur Miller

  Success, Country, Thinking

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.226, Bloomsbury Publishing

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