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• The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Doors, Blood

  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.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Arthur Miller

  Games, Life Is, Pastime

  Life, February 7, 1964.

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

  Arthur Miller

  Artist, Temptation, Trying

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• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  Arthur Miller

  Years, Alive, Ends

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.

  Arthur Miller

  Funny, Information, Databases

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• There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

  Arthur Miller

  Ideas, Tragedy, Pessimism

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Arthur Miller

  Appreciation, Tragedy, Causes

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

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

  Arthur Miller

  Broken, Bottles, Nickels

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

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

  Arthur Miller

  Judging, Looks, Sometimes

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

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• What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Christian, Strange

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.48, Heinemann

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• PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

  Arthur Miller

  Insane, Knows

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.378, Penguin

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• PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

  Arthur Miller

  Mind, Breathless, God Is Dead

  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.311, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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

  Principles, Accepted, Results

  "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89". www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2005.

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

  Arthur Miller

  Technology, Difficult, Humans

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

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• HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

  Arthur Miller

  Crucible, Intellectual, Pursuit

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

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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

  Arthur Miller

  Night, Parent, Crucible

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

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• Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Couple, Thinking

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Next, Doe

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

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• In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Giving, Way

  Interview With William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March-April 2001.

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