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From Quotes by Arthur Miller
- 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…
- 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…
- The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens…
- The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty…
- My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or…
- For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind…
- I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two…
- 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;…
- Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather…
- The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
- They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
- A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him…
- most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless,…
- He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
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