Arthur Asher Miller foi um dramaturgo norte-americano. Conhecido por ser o autor das peças Morte de um Caixeiro Viajante e de The Crucible , e por se ter casado com a atriz Marilyn Monroe em 1956. Morreu de insuficiência cardíaca crónica, com 89 anos, em Roxbury, Connecticut. Wikipedia
“Você se especializa em alguma coisa até um dia descobrir que a coisa se especializou em você.”
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
The Price (1967)
“Quando antevejo o final, consigo trabalhar para trás.”
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
The New York Times (9 Fev 1986)
“A traição é a única verdade que cola.”
why is betrayal the only truth that sticks
"After the Fall" - Página 53, Arthur Miller - Dramatist's Play Service, 1964, ISBN 0822200104, 9780822200109 - 83 páginas
“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.”
"The Year it Came Apart" http://books.google.com/books?id=MekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30, New York magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (30 December 1974 – 6 January 1975), p. 30
“Isn't that — isn't that remarkable? Biff — he likes me!”
Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.”
John Hale
The Crucible (1953)
“Personality always wins the day.”
Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
“There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!”
Mrs. Ann Putnam
The Crucible (1953)
Leo in I Can't Remember Anything in Danger: Memory! : Two Plays (1987)
“You cut your life down for spite!”
Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
After being refused a passport for his supposed disloyalty. The New York Herald Tribune (31 March 1954)
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”
The New York Times (9 May 1984)
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.”
Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
On filming a television production of Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (15 September 1985) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E2DE133BF936A2575AC0A963948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
“Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself”
Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
“We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.”
Deputy Governor Danforth
The Crucible (1953)
On Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as quoted in The New York Times (9 May 1984)
“Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!”
Deputy Governor Danforth
The Crucible (1953)
“I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.”
Lyman speaking of his wife to his lawyer, Act 1
The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)
"The State of the Theatre" an interview by Henry Brandon in Harpers 221 (November 1960)