“Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”
Arthur Miller“Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.”
Arthur Miller“cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible“What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible“I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing." - Mary Warren”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”
Arthur Miller“Without alienation, there can be no politics.”
Arthur Miller“The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.”
Arthur Miller“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.”
Arthur Miller“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
Arthur Miller“I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.”
Arthur Miller