The Crucible
A source page for quotes linked to Arthur Miller.
“Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!”
“To admit what you see endangers principles.”
“See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...”
“We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.”
“I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?”
“Don’t you understand what I’m talking about? He’s going to kill himself, don’t you know that?”
“The jails are full of fearless characters.”
“LINDA [with infinite patience]”
“I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!”
“It seemed forever before someone remembered to applaud, and then there was no end to it.”
“cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale”
“What ideology, I wondered, was not based on a principled denial of the facts?”
“We had invented God to keep from dying of reality, yet love was the realest reality of all.”
“The paranoid, real or pretended, always secretes its pearl around a grain of fact.”
“Fear doesn't travel well; just as it can warp judgement, its absence can diminish memory's truth.”
“What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next.”
“Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.”
“A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.”
“El teatro no puede desaparecer porque es el único arte donde la humanidad se enfrenta a sí misma”