32 Quotes by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller was an American playwright who lived from 1915 to 2005. He is best known for his plays "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible," both of which are considered classics of American theater. Miller's works often explored themes of the American Dream, family relationships, and the human condition. He was also a prominent social and political commentator and was a vocal critic of McCarthyism and the Vietnam War. Miller's work continues to be performed and studied today, and he is considered one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century. (Bio)
Arthur Miller Quotes
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. (Meaning)
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. (Meaning)
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.
Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.
If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
The brain heals the past like an injury.
― Arthur Miller Quotes
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