As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because … - Arthur Miller

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As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.

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Arthur Asher Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. Widely recognized as one of the most significant American playwrights of the 20th Century, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 for Death of a Salesman.

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If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked.

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الأديب دائماً في تعب وكرب، ولا يقتصر هذا على ما يحدث أثناء قيامه بالكتابة أو لأنه يكتب، إن التعب والكرب يلازمان الكاتب في كل شأن من شؤون الحياة، في الزواج، والمعاملات الخارجية، والمال، وكل شيء

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