“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”
❤3
“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.”
❤11
Arthur Miller (American playwright)
____________
Born : October 17, 1915
Died : February 10, 2005
____________
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.
____________
Born : October 17, 1915
Died : February 10, 2005
____________
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.
👍1
“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
❤2
“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
❤2
“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!”
❤2
“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.”
❤4
"The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order, for meaning."
❤3
“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”
❤5
“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
❤5
“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”
❤7
"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. "
❤5
"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. "
❤7
“I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know-what I’m supposed to want.”
❤7
C.S. Lewis (Irish-born author and scholar)
_________
Born : November 29, 1898
Died : November 22, 1963
_________
author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have become classics of fantasy literature.
His first successful work of fiction was Out of the Silent Planet (1938), a novel into which Lewis wove Christian allusions and themes. It and many of Lewis’s later books were read aloud and critiqued at meetings of the Inklings, a group of fellow writers who influenced him significantly. Out of the Silent Planet was followed by the equally successful Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). Those three novels, which form one of the earliest and best of science-fiction trilogies.
_________
Born : November 29, 1898
Died : November 22, 1963
_________
author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have become classics of fantasy literature.
His first successful work of fiction was Out of the Silent Planet (1938), a novel into which Lewis wove Christian allusions and themes. It and many of Lewis’s later books were read aloud and critiqued at meetings of the Inklings, a group of fellow writers who influenced him significantly. Out of the Silent Planet was followed by the equally successful Perelandra (1943) and That Hideous Strength (1945). Those three novels, which form one of the earliest and best of science-fiction trilogies.
❤1👍1