Arthur Miller quotes - page 3

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all. (Arthur Miller)
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! View quote
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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. View quote
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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. View quote
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I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it. View quote
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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 punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied. View quote
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We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! View quote
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If I have to be alone I want to be by myself. View quote
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The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. View quote
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Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! View quote
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Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away. (Arthur Miller)
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. View quote
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I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life. View quote
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I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. View quote
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? View quote
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The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. View quote
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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead! View quote
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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. View quote
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Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. View quote
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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. View quote
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A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. (Arthur Miller)
I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing - his sense of personal dignity. View quote
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Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. View quote
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Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all. View quote
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We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment. View quote
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