Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

Playwright, Essayist

Arthur Miller was an influential American playwright known for works like 'Death of a Salesman' that explore themes of truth and human struggle.

Men Writing People Thinking Play Art
Born
October 17, 1915
Died
February 10, 2005
Quotes
219
Rank
#3472

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"In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you."

Girl Bullying Night
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"Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man."

Lying Optimistic Men
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"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 a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone."

Business Men Thinking
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"He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!"

Crucible Goodness
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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."

Who I Am Waiting Trying
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"When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back."

Broken Bottles Nickels
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"Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not."

Judging Looks Sometimes
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"I think the tragic feeling is invoked 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."

Character Thinking Feelings
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"If you analyse anything, you destroy it."

Ifs
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"The brain heals the past like an injury."

Past Brain Injury
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"Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing."

Home Agony Hysteria
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"Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions."

Dream Writing People
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"The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies."

Sky Enemy Balloons
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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."

Men Enemy Tragedy
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"There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more."

Crucible Atheism Church
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"The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress"

Oysters Cracks World
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"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now."

Crucible Naked Providence
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"Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere."

Funny Information Databases
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"Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil."

Devil Witch Sexuality
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