“I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.”
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“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”
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“I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. I like watching people, but I don’t like talking to them, dealing with them, pleasing them, or offending them. I am tired.”
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Arthur Miller (American playwright)
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Born : October 17, 1915
Died : February 10, 2005
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American playwright, who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives.
Death of a Salesman, became one of the most famous American plays of its period. It is the tragedy of Willy Loman, a man destroyed by false values that are in large part the values of his society.
Miller had been exploring the ideas underlying Death of a Salesman since he was a teenager, when he wrote a story about a Jewish salesman; he also drew on memories of an uncle. He wrote the play in 1948, and it opened in New York City, directed by Kazan, in February 1949. The play won a Tony Award for best play and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, while Miller and Kazan again each won individual Tonys, as author and director respectively. The play was later adapted for the screen (1951 and several made-for-television versions) and was revived several times on Broadway.
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Born : October 17, 1915
Died : February 10, 2005
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American playwright, who combined social awareness with a searching concern for his characters’ inner lives.
Death of a Salesman, became one of the most famous American plays of its period. It is the tragedy of Willy Loman, a man destroyed by false values that are in large part the values of his society.
Miller had been exploring the ideas underlying Death of a Salesman since he was a teenager, when he wrote a story about a Jewish salesman; he also drew on memories of an uncle. He wrote the play in 1948, and it opened in New York City, directed by Kazan, in February 1949. The play won a Tony Award for best play and a Pulitzer Prize for drama, while Miller and Kazan again each won individual Tonys, as author and director respectively. The play was later adapted for the screen (1951 and several made-for-television versions) and was revived several times on Broadway.
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“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.”
― A View from the Bridge
― A View from the Bridge
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“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
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“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!”
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“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.”
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"The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order, for meaning."
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“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”
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“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
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“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”
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"I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. "
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"Can anyone 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. "
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“I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.”
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