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

— Arthur Miller

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

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)

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.

Commenting on After the Fall (1964)

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If strong trust is not knotted in the foundation of love, a home that could shield its inhabitants could not be built.

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost North of Boston (1914)

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin Humanity in the City (1854)

A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.

Edward Coke Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)

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