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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

— Arthur Miller Commenting on After the Fall (1964)

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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

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

There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!

The Crucible (1953)

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

After the Fall (1964)

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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