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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Maggie People Suicide Two Two People

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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.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Attention Being Character Ever Finest Happening He Him Human Human Being Lived Must Paid Terrible Terrible Thing Thing

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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.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Blotted Camera House Looking Marks Out Quotation Recognized Screen Tend Theater Were While You

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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?

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Age Am Art Better Certain Certain Age Concentrate Ever Long Off Reach Than Unnecessary Why Why Not Will You I Am I Can

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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

Topics: Any Asylum Country Drift Innocent Insane Life Most People Place See Themselves Through Truly Unable

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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Country Live Lives Occupied Playwright Stay Way You

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You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: After Cannot Catch Child Itself Love Must Return Running Soon Spirit Stand Still Will You

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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Absence Always Answers Ask Certain Face Humility Job Precise Them I Can

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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: About Cannot Coming Door Dream Dreaming Find House Sleep Some Though Through Wake Walk You

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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: After Back Catch Child Come Itself Like Love Must Never Running Soon Spirit Stand Still Will You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 17th, 1915

Died: February 10th, 2005

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