By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings. β¨ Arthur Miller (2009). Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge, p.53, A&C Black
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- A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. β¨ The New York Times, February 9, 1986.
- The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. β¦ βΆ
- Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all. β¨ Arthur Miller (1994). Death of a Salesman, p.102, Heinemann
- The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. β¨ Richard Isadore Evans, Arthur Miller (1969). Psychology and Arthur Miller, Praeger Publishers
- No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
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