Frases célebres de Arthur Miller
Fuente: Paris Review (verano de 1966)
Fuente: Citado en: Federalism and the French Canadians (1968), pág. 175.
Fuente: New York Herald Tribune (31 de marzo de 1954)
Fuente: Collected Plays (1958) Introducción, Sección 1
Fuente: Harper's (agosto de 1958)
Arthur Miller Frases y Citas
Fuente: Collected Plays (1958) Introducción, Sección 2.
Fuente: Collected Plays (1958) Introducción, Sección 7.
Fuente: «El Estado del Teatro», una entrevista con Henry Brandon en Harpers 221 (noviembre de 1960).
“Un buen periódico es una nación hablándose a sí misma.”
Fuente: The Observer Londres (26 de noviembre de 1961)
Fuente: National Observer (20 de enero de 1964)
“Te especializas en algo hasta que un día descubres que se están especializando en ti.”
Fuente: El precio (1967).
The Crucible
Arthur Miller: Frases en inglés
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
As quoted in The Observer [London] (26 November 1961)
Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Fuente: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
“… an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”
Fuente: The Crucible
“Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.”
Fuente: The Crucible
“He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!”
Elizabeth Proctor
Fuente: The Crucible (1953)
Linda
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Contexto: 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.
“A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.”
Fuente: Death of a Salesman
“The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”
Fuente: Death of a Salesman
“Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.”
Fuente: The Crucible (1953)
Contexto: Proctor: You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more. I have forgot Abigail, and —
Elizabeth: And I.
Proctor: Spare me! You forget nothin' and forgive nothin.' Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven months since she is gone. I have not moved from there to here without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!
Elizabeth: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John — only somewhat bewildered.
Proctor: Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
Ben
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Fuente: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
“See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals…”
Fuente: Death of a Salesman
“PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!”
Fuente: The Crucible
His reply to a shoe manufacturer who had asked why Miller's job should be subsidized when his was not, as recounted at a London press conference. The Guardian (25 January 1990)
Commenting on After the Fall (1964) in The Saturday Evening Post (1 February 1964)
