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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.

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.

Arthur Miller
Country, People, Insane
"With respect for Her Agony - but with Love" in LIFE magazine, February 7, 1964.

... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

Arthur Miller
Country, Hate, Love You
Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.532, Penguin

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.

Arthur Miller
Country, Home, Past
Arthur Miller (1992). “The Crucible”, p.13, Heinemann

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Arthur Miller
Country, Way, Playwright
The New York Times, February 9, 1986.

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
Success, Country, Thinking
Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.226, Bloomsbury Publishing

The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

Arthur Miller
Country, Art, Laughter
Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

Arthur Miller
Beautiful, Country, Song

Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

Arthur Miller
Country, Couple, Thinking
Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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