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1 " Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. "
― Arthur Miller , The Crucible
2 " It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves "
3 " The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. "
― Arthur Miller
4 " 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. "
5 " Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. "
6 " HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit "
7 " I don't know what the hell I'm workin' for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment–all alone. And I think of the rent I'm paying. And it's crazy. But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I'm lonely. "
― Arthur Miller , Death of a Salesman
8 " A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. "
9 " Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away. "
― Arthur Miller , A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
10 " Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? "
11 " A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. "
12 " 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. "
― Arthur Miller , All My Sons
13 " I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop? "
14 " The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within. "
15 " [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 morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas. "
16 " To admit what you see endangers principles. "
― Arthur Miller , After the Fall
17 " When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now "
18 " Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. "
19 " Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it. "
20 " 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 light out of my eyes! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! "
