The brain heals the past like an injury. Arthur Miller More Quotes by Arthur Miller More Quotes From Arthur Miller Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. Arthur Miller bed writing son There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more. Arthur Miller crucible atheism church 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. Arthur Miller nitrogen done talking If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. Arthur Miller communication responsibility expression Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life. Arthur Miller giving way There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism. Arthur Miller pessimism tragedy ideas Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. Arthur Miller causes tragedy appreciation When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back. Arthur Miller nickels bottles broken Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more. Arthur Miller ifs Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other. Arthur Miller agony knowing men The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. Arthur Miller consciousness theatre people The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars. Arthur Miller lovely shadow stars I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding. Arthur Miller accepted results principles It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man. Arthur Miller kings heart men A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. Arthur Miller malevolence moral political Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide. Arthur Miller cities religious dream A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. Arthur Miller springtime bird men He's liked, but he's not well liked. Arthur Miller salesman wells sarcastic There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. Arthur Miller machines technology personality And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. Arthur Miller phones careers men
