Arthur Miller quotes - page 6

Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption! (Arthur Miller)
In an ordinary crime, how does one defend the accused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is it not? Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims - and they do testify, the children certainly do testify. As for the witches, none will deny that we are most eager for all their confessions. Therefore, what is left for a lawyer to bring out? I think I have made my point. Have I not? View quote
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I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism? View quote
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They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England. View quote
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Spite, spite, is the word of your undoing! View quote
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I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me. View quote
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Sit down, Willy. View quote
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen. View quote
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I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free! View quote
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I like it not that Mr. Parris should lay his hand upon my baby. I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it. View quote
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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume? (Arthur Miller)
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, What do you do And, being American, many's the time I've almost. View quote
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A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre. View quote
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Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. View quote
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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. View quote
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There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. View quote
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There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad. View quote
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I cannot write anything that I understand too well. If I know what something means to me, if I have already come to the end of it as an experience, I can't write it because it seems a twice-told tale. View quote
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He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great. View quote
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My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering. View quote
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When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man. (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past. View quote
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through. View quote
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The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping. View quote
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The word now is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. View quote
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