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“Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”

The New York Times (9 May 1984)

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

After being refused a passport for his supposed disloyalty. The New York Herald Tribune (31 March 1954)

“You cut your life down for spite!”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Hale: There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country —
Danforth: Then there is a prodigious guilt in the country. Are you afraid to be questioned here?
Hale: I may only fear the Lord, sir, but there is fear in the country nevertheless.
Danforth: Reproach me not with the fear in the country; there is fear in the country because there is a moving plot to topple Christ in the country!
Hale: But it does not follow that everyone accused is part of it.
Danforth: No uncorrupted man may fear this court, Mr. Hale!”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

The Crucible (1953)

“Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Abigail Williams
The Crucible (1953)

“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.”

Collected Plays (1958) Introduction, Section 1

“If I see an ending, I can work backward.”

The New York Times (9 Feb 1986)

“I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know…”

Leo in I Can't Remember Anything in Danger: Memory! : Two Plays (1987)

“If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.”

Marxism Today (January 1988)

“There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Mrs. Ann Putnam
The Crucible (1953)

“Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?”

Arthur Miller After the Fall

Foreword
After the Fall (1964)

“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

John Hale
The Crucible (1953)

“Personality always wins the day.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“Isn't that — isn't that remarkable? Biff — he likes me!”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”

"The Year it Came Apart" http://books.google.com/books?id=MekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30, New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (30 December 1974 – 6 January 1975), p. 30

“Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.”

Life (7 February 1964)

“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”

Commenting on After the Fall (1964) in The Saturday Evening Post (1 February 1964)

“John, I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how I should say my love. It were a cold house I kept!”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Elizabeth Proctor
The Crucible (1953)

“I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.”

Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman

Biff
Death of a Salesman (1949)