Arthur Miller quotes - page 5

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! (Arthur Miller)
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. View quote
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I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. View quote
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. View quote
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. View quote
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Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died. View quote
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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. View quote
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Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly. View quote
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The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy. View quote
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It is time, I think, that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time - the heart and spirit of the average man. View quote
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Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies. (Arthur Miller)
I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day. View quote
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A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. View quote
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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. View quote
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The mission of the theater, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. View quote
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The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity. View quote
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Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked. View quote
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The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell. View quote
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Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again. View quote
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John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept! View quote
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Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small. (Arthur Miller)
Personality always wins the day. View quote
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There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires! View quote
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You cut your life down for spite! View quote
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Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself. View quote
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