“The past, and its relationship to the present, has always been vital to Miller. As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.”
― Death of a Salesman
― Death of a Salesman
“The human reality of what happens to millions is only for God to grasp; but what happens to individuals is another matter and within the range of mortal understanding.”
― The Crucible
― The Crucible
“They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world. We have inherited this belief, and it has helped and hurt us.”
― The Crucible
― The Crucible
“As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.”
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
― Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
“He was talking as though someone we both knew had just died, and it filled me with happiness. Such is art.”
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