Never fight fair with a stranger, boy... Arthur Miller

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Arthur Miller

Profession: Dramatist
Nationality: American

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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

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