Meandering around . . .

Today is the birthday of Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005), playwright and essayist. In 1949, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

“I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.”
- Arthur Miller

"Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, What do you do? And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day."
- Arthur Miller

“The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes”
- Arthur Miller

"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."
- Arthur Miller

"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."
- Arthur Miller

“An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted”
- Arthur Miller

“Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.”
- Arthur Miller

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