Артур Миллер цитаты
Артур Миллер
Дата рождения: 17. Октябрь 1915
Дата смерти: 10. Февраль 2005
А́ртур А́шер Ми́ллер — американский драматург и прозаик, автор прославленной пьесы «Смерть коммивояжёра», за которую был награждён Пулитцеровской премией. Третий муж Мэрилин Монро.
Цитаты Артур Миллер
„Общество и человек есть враги, зависящие друг от друга, и труд писателя сводится к вечному определению и защите этого парадокса — не позволяя, упаси Боже, ему разрешиться.“
Источник: Харлан Эллисон. У меня нет рта, а я хочу кричать // Миры Харлана Эллисона. Том 2. На пути к забвению. — Рига: Полярис, 1997. — С. 7-25.
„Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.“
Вариант: You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
Источник: A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts
„Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.“
As quoted in Finding Your Bipolar Muse : How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Depression (2006) by Lana R. Castle, p. 258
„Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.“
— Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Act 1
The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)
Источник: The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
„It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. … much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence.“
"With respect for Her Agony — but with Love" in LIFE magazine (7 February 1964)
Контексте: It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. … much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence. But what is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. The perfection of innocence, indeed, is madness.
„He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.“
— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Charley
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Контексте: Nobody dast blame this man. Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
„Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.“
— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Linda
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Контексте: I don't say he's a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.
„The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy.“
Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
Контексте: The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy. Where pathos rules, where pathos is finally derived, a character has fought a battle he could not possibly have won. The pathetic is achieved when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity, or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force.
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief — optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.
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.
