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If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

— Arthur Miller

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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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