Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it.

—Arthur Miller

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About Arthur Miller

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Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including...

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The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

—Arthur Miller

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

—Arthur Miller

Years ago a person, he was unhappy, didn't know what to do with himself, he'd go to church, start a revolution—something. Today you're unhappy? Can't figure it out? What is the salvation? Go shopping.

—Arthur Miller

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I got my first full-time job, but it's weird. I could swear I was making more money in college, working for my parents as their daughter.

—Melanie Reno

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If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

—Annie Dillard

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

—H. L. Mencken

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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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