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• Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Tough, Sometimes

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• Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Expecting, Playwriting

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

  Arthur Miller

  Father, Son, Oedipus

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

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• What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, People, Insane

  "With respect for Her Agony - but with Love" in LIFE magazine, February 7, 1964.

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• I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
  never met any.

  Arthur Miller

  Great Business, Mets, Businessman

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• When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

  Arthur Miller

  Success, Creativity, Men

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• By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

  Arthur Miller

  Business, Drama, Passion

  Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.53, A&C Black

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• Without alienation, there can be no politics.

  Arthur Miller

  Politics, Alienation

  1988 In Marxism Today, Jan.

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

  Mother, Father, Self

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

  Arthur Miller

  Fighting, Boys, Way

  Arthur Miller (1994). “Death of a Salesman”, p.33, Heinemann

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• God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.

  Arthur Miller

  Jobs, Years, Design

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• If I see an ending, I can work backward.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Ifs, I Can

  The New York Times, February 9, 1986.

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• I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

  Arthur Miller

  Enemy, Culture, States

  The New York Herald Tribune, March 31, 1954.

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• The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Home, Past

  Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.13, Heinemann

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• One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Long, People

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

  Arthur Miller

  Best Friend, Smell, Rose

  Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• 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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• Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

  Arthur Miller

  Humor, Likes

  Arthur Miller (1996). “Death of a Salesman: Revised Edition”, p.72, Penguin

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• Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

  Arthur Miller

  Who I Am, Waiting, Trying

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.94, Penguin

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• When the guns roar, the arts die.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Gun, Dies

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• The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

  Arthur Miller

  People, Theatre, Consciousness

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• The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

  Arthur Miller

  Spring, Writing, Order

  Arthur Miller, Matthew Charles Roudané (1987). “Conversations with Arthur Miller”, p.287, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• 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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