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. Wikipedia
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
„I'm a fatalist. … I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.“
As quoted in "Arthur Miller, Moral Voice of American Stage, Dies at 89" by Marilyn Berger in The New York Times (11 February 2005) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/theater/newsandfeatures/11cnd-miller.html?ei=5070&en=3842d0df3195ba4c&ex=1148356800&adxnnlx=1148209567-ZnjnGzbndB3P1XvCU5BNDg&pagewanted=all&position=
„There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.“
1963 interview, used in The Century of the Self (2002)
Контексте: My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives, instead of trying to cure ourselves of it constantly and avoid it, and avoid anything but that lobotomized sense of what they call "happiness." There's too much of an attempt, it seems to me, to think in terms of controlling man, rather than freeing him. Of defining him rather than letting him go. It's part of the whole ideology of this age, which is power-mad.
„I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? — The perfume?“
— Arthur Miller, After the Fall
Quentin in After the Fall (1964) Act II
After the Fall (1964)
„The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments.“
Timebends : A Life (1987)
Контексте: The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there — it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.
