“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

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

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playwright from the United States 1915–2005

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