PATRICIA: Not all—I’ve known some lovely men. Not many, but a few. This minister I mentioned?—he came one day this summer and sat with me on our porch . . . and we had ice cream and talked for over an hour. You know, when he left his previous church they gave him a Pontiac Grand Am. He made me realize something; he said that I seem to be in like a constant state of prayer. And it’s true; every once in a while it stops me short, realizing it.
“LYMAN: Oh Leah, say something tough and honest . . . the way you can.
LEAH: I don’t know if I’ll ever believe anything . . . or anybody, again.”
Excerpt From
"The Ride Down Mount Morgan", 1991
The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015
Arthur Miller
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LYMAN: Tom, I love her, too. But after thirty-two years we bore each other, we just do. And boredom is a form of deception, isn’t it. And deception has become like my Nazi, my worst horror—I want nothing now but to wear my own face on my face every day till the day I die. Or do you think that kind of honesty is possible?
TOM: I don’t have to tell you, the problem is not honesty but how much you hurt others with it.”
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In my Arthur Miller phase and saw this--rather threw me; an interesting take. I don't necessarily buy into the thesis..but thought-provoking.
[Financial Times]: Playwright Kimberly Belflower: ‘Has a lot changed since #MeToo? Not really’ By Rebecca Watson
As the award-winning ‘John Proctor is the Villain’ comes to London, its creator reflects on the power of language to confront trauma
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/f52ffce7-0db7-4ecc-afd0-052b911bccd6
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"Here's to Nevada, the 'leave-it state'."
The Misfits, 1961. Isabelle Steer played by Thelma Ritter (1902-1969)
"You got money you wanna gamble? Leave it here. You got a wife you wanna get rid of? Leave her here. Extra atom bomb you don't need? Blow it up here. Nobody's gonna mind in the slightest. The slogan of Nevada is 'anything goes but don't complain if it went.'"
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Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy", 1964 and "Playing for Time", 1985 based on the memoir by Fania Fénelon, whose book recounts her survival in the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz concentration camp,
The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015
Book notes: (maybe.. relatable to us *now*..)
"When history closes around you, what choices remain—and what do those choices cost?"
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“LEE: [..] She was so like the country; money obsessed her, but what she really longed for was some kind of height where she could stand and see out and around and breathe in the air of her own free life. With all her defeats she believed to the end that the world was meant to be better. . . . I don’t know; all I know for sure is that whenever I think of her, I always end up—with this headful of life!”
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“GRANDPA, putting down his paper: Why do they need this election?
ROSE: What do you mean, why they need this election?
GRANDPA: But everybody knows Roosevelt is going to win again. I still think he’s too radical, but to go through another election is a terrible waste of money.
ROSE: What are you talking about, Papa—it’s four years, they have to have an election.
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“LEE: [..] even though I knew we had a long bad time ahead of us. And so, like most people, I waited with that crazy kind of expectation that comes when there is no hope, waited for the dream to come back from wherever it had gone to hide.”
Excerpt From
The American Clock, 1980 (set in 1929)
Based in part on Studs Terkel’s Hard Times
Arthur Miller
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“ROBERTSON: Exactly, and GE is the fastest-growing company in the world because. . . .
QUINN, loves *this point*: . . . because we’ve had the capital to buy up one independent business after another. . . . It’s haunting me, Arthur—thousands of small businesses are going under every week now, and we’re getting bigger and bigger every day. ..
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