And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. β¨ Arthur Miller (2015). Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge, p.180, Bloomsbury Publishing
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- A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for! β¨ The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays.
- I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. β¨ Arthur Miller (2015). Miller Plays: 2: The Misfits; After the Fall; Incident at Vichy; The Price; Creation of the World; Playing β¦ βΆ
- A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.
- A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. β¨ Arthur β¦ βΆ
- The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. β¨ Federalism and the French Canadians. Book by Pierre Trudeau (p. 175), 1968.
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