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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: American American Culture Certainly Culture Department Difficult Enemies Fewer Friends Made More State State Department Than Very

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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Accurate Answer Great Great Thing Most Much Myself Now Possible Problem Rather Statement Theater Thing Think I Think

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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.

~Arthur Miller

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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

~Arthur Miller

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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Act Credit Dare Endure Know Longer Nation Say Than Will Works

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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

~Arthur Miller

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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

~Arthur Miller

Topics: Author Certainly Diverse Find Game Life Literary Minor Most Pastime

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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

~Arthur Miller

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I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

~Arthur Miller

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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

~Arthur Miller

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 17th, 1915

Died: February 10th, 2005

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