Arthur Miller Quotes

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• ...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.
• 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.
• Suicide kills two people.
• 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…
• An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
• He's liked, but he's not well liked.
• The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes…
• 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…
• I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
• No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
• There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
• 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…
• And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his…
• Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's…
• He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets…
• When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
• A suicide kills two people . . . that's what it's for.
• I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
• That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
• Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding…

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