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21 " Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. "
― Arthur Miller , The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
22 " 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
23 " 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 crotch until he's got you fitted for that black suit. And I can't, I won't!... So I'm left with wrestling with this anachronistic energy which God has charged me with and I will use it till the dirt is shoveled in my mouth! Life! Life! Fuck death and dying! "
24 " 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 here, you eat him! "
― Arthur Miller , All My Sons
25 " The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell. "
― Arthur Miller , Death of a Salesman
26 " A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. "
27 " Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face! "
― Arthur Miller , The Crucible
28 " 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. "
29 " An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. "
30 " Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears. "
31 " The train resembles the Soviet type and is quite comfortable, but all socialist structures I have ever encountered have toilets stemming from a single model engineered by the Orthodox Church in Tsarist Russia to ensure that man never be allowed to forget the corruption of the flesh. "
― Arthur Miller , Salesman in Beijing
32 " 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. "
33 " 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 when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. "
34 " You never do any good until you get into some trouble. "
35 " Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away. "
― Arthur Miller , A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
36 " Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name! "
37 " Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. "
38 " The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. "
39 " I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it. "
40 " Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. "