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
Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.
You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
The brain heals the past like an injury ...
Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.
There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.