Arthur Miller

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him! ↗

— Arthur Miller

#religion #salem-witch-trials #the-crucible #religion

I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! ↗

— Arthur Miller

#death-of-a-salesman #willy-loman #death

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#always #answers #ask #certain #face

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. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#into #make #profit #seduced #thinking

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#fair #fight #get #jungle #never

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#camera #house #looking #marks #out

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#back #catch #child #come #itself

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#american culture #certainly #culture #department #difficult

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#him #lends #likes #money #nobody