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Quotes from Arthur Miller

It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.
~ Arthur Miller
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
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, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.
~ Arthur Miller
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.
~ Arthur Miller
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...
~ Arthur Miller
Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.
~ Arthur Miller
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.
~ Arthur Miller
You don't realize how people can hate, they can hate so much they'll tear the world to pieces.
~ Arthur Miller
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 the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.
~ Arthur Miller
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
~ Arthur Miller
Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
~ Arthur Miller
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
~ Arthur Miller
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
~ Arthur Miller
What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!
~ Arthur Miller
To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.
~ Arthur Miller
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
~ Arthur Miller
we are only what we always were
~ Arthur Miller
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.
~ Arthur Miller
Because most people ain't people.
~ Arthur Miller
There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits
~ Arthur Miller
There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
~ Arthur Miller
I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life
~ Arthur Miller
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.
~ Arthur Miller
If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked.
~ Arthur Miller