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Quote by Arthur Miller

“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.”

Quote by Arthur Miller

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A renowned American playwright, known for his profound social criticism and character development. His works include 'Death of a Salesman' and 'All My Sons'. more

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“A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.”

Writing Made Play Force Ignorance Jokes Irony Concealed Sensing Irony Of Life Simulate

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.”

Way Self Mother Father Worst Poet Standing Theater Strive Sexuality Shoulders Pity Adolescence Obsessive Self Pity Tiptoes Wallowing Keyholes

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.”

Ifs Knows Writing Art Talking Audience Hell Paper Theater Wave Length Playwright

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?”

Writing Long Art I Can Age Certain Why Not Unnecessary Slough

Author:Arthur Miller

“The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.”

Real Order Causes Intellectual Illusion Tasks Analyzing

Author:Arthur Miller

“What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.”

People Country Innocent Insane Innocence Asylums Insane Asylum

Author:Arthur Miller

“Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?”

Needs Ends Action Choices Absence Innocence Paradise

Book:Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed.”

Humans Dies Born One Thing Married Data Divorced

Author:Arthur Miller

“I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.”

People Thinking Art Jobs Artist Choices Forget Wise Words Chosen Never Forget Playwright Reminding Essayists

Author:Arthur Miller

“For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.”

Done Film Musician Painter Makers Conventions

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays