Quotes by Arthur Miller

About Arthur Miller:

Arthur Asher Miller is often numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Day's Journey into Night and A Streetcar Named Desire.
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I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the lig...

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When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of...

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[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a...

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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

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It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

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Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake wh...

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Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she's fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone- I have no proof for it. Elizabeth: You we...

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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

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Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

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See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

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The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

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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?

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...he'll come back. We all come back, kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it,...

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Mother: What more can we be? Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

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Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

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I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

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Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man her...

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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

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I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or be ridiculous - you've got to stand there nobly and serene, and let death run his tape on your arms and around your belly and up your crotc...

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Author Bio

  • NameArthur Miller
  • Descriptionplaywright from the United States
  • BornOctober 17, 1915
  • DiedFebruary 10, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Writer; Essayist
  • WorksDeath Of A Salesman; The Crucible; A View From The Bridge; All My Sons
  • AwardsLaurence Olivier Award; Pulitzer Prize For Drama; Primetime Emmy Award; Prince Of Asturia Literary Prize; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Of Speech; Praemium Imperiale