7 Arthur Miller Quotes on Legacy

Arthur Miller quotes on legacy

2. I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

22. 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.

23. 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.

57. 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.

65. Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.

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.

109. The greatest playwright of the 20th century.