Quote #108

Arthur was the last of the three great theatrical voices of the American century - O'Neill, Williams, Miller. ... Arthur's special achievement was to make political and social plays which belonged on Broadway and yet were also powered to reach out into America and way beyond.

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  1. His work teaches us a lot about how to fight evil.
  2. The greatest playwright of the 20th century.
  3. I write about private dilemmas that have become public calamities.
  4. Writing meant, for him, an effort to locate in the human species a counterforce to the randomness of victimisation.
  5. The word 'now' is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.
  6. Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's ro…
  7. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
  8. I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

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