Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Millerwas a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucibleand A View from the Bridge. He also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits. The drama Death of a Salesman is often numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Day's Journey into Night and A Streetcar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 October 1915
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?
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.