Arthur Miller Quotes on Legacy
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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I understand his longing for immortality : Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone.
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son: all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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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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The greatest playwright of the 20th century.