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Quotes from Tragedy and the Common Man — Arthur Miller

1915–2005 United States

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I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing — his sense of personal dignity.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

More important, from this total questioning of what has previously been unquestioned, we learn.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

In this age few tragedies are written.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

Tragedy enlightens — and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

It is time, I think, that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time — the heart and spirit of the average man.

Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.