“The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.”
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Author detail
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
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“The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.”
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“Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.”
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“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
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“Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.”
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“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.”
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“A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!”
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“Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.”
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“I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.”
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“All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.”
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“A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.”
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“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”
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“You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.”
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“He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.”
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“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.”
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