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
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.
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...
Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.
You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.
The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.