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
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.
Marrying him was my mistake, not his. He couldn't give me the attention, warmth and affection I need. It's not in his nature. Arthur never credited me with much intelligence. He couldn't share his intellectual life with me. As bed partners, we were so-so.
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money
I couldn't have predicted that a work like 'Death of a Salesman' would take on the proportions it has