Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am … - Arthur Miller

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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

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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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Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

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George Bernard Shaw John Steinbeck Jean-Paul Sartre William Faulkner Henrik Ibsen

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I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. My whole bloody life, time after time after time.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

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