Arthur Miller Quotes - Page 8

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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 bare ass 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

  Girl, Blow, Intelligent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

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  Artist, Temptation, Trying

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• Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

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  Humanity, Theatre, Crafts

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• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

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  Night, Parent, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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• . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

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  Thinking, Play, Different

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• When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

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  Broken, Bottles, Nickels

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.167, Penguin

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• I am a good woman. I know it.

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  Good Woman, Knows

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.40, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

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  Appreciation, Tragedy, Causes

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

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• He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

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  Crucible, Goodness

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.91, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

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  Blow, Wind, Heaven

  "The Crucible". Play by Arthur Miller, 1953.

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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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  Funny Things, World, Salesman

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.73, Penguin

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• Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

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  Devil, Witch, Sexuality

  1998 On President Clinton's relationship withMonica Lewinsky. In the NewYork Times,15 Oct.

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• Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

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  Two, Giving, Weight

  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.322, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Fashion

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• Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

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  Dream, Couple, Men

  Death of a Salesman "Requiem" (1949)

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• Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

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  Beer, Justice, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1996). “The Crucible: Revised Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

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  Games, Life Is, Pastime

  Life, February 7, 1964.

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• In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

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  House, Cameras, Quotation Marks

  "TV's Custom-Tailores 'Salesman'" by Don Shewwy, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1985.

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• HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

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  Crucible, Intellectual, Pursuit

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

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  Technology, Difficult, Humans

  Serge Toubiana, Arthur Miller, Magnum Photos, inc (2000). “The misfits: story of a shoot”, Phaidon Press

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• Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

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  Judging, Looks, Sometimes

  Arthur Miller (1953). “The Crucible”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

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  Dream, Religious, Cities

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• More Weight -Giles Corey-

  Arthur Miller

  Weight

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• He's liked, but he's not well liked.

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  Sarcastic, Wells, Salesman

  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.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

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  Girl, Bullying, Night

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