Arthur Miller quotes - page 7

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time 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. (Arthur Miller)
Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese! View quote
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Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live. View quote
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Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life. View quote
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The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star. View quote
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood. View quote
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PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same! View quote
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be à when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. View quote
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What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women! View quote
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Suicide kills two people. View quote
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If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. (Arthur Miller)
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit. View quote
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Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour [is] the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment. View quote
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A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! View quote
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I think one must finally take one's life in one's arms. View quote
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More important, from this total questioning of what has previously been unquestioned, we learn. View quote
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I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points! View quote
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Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person. View quote
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He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. View quote
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Is the accuser always holy now? View quote
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It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. ... much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence. (Arthur Miller)
The way out, as the poet says, is always through. View quote
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A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. View quote
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Officials wept; they were speechless after the play, and everyone knew why. It was because they had to enforce the kind of repression the play was attacking. View quote
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Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbor. View quote
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