"The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost."

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Source : Harper's, Aug. 1958

Arthur Miller

#Home Quotes #Play Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.”
“The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.”
“I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.”
“Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.”
“If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.”
“I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.”
“Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.”

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