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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.

— Arthur Miller Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)

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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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