Arthur Miller married Marilyn but same judgements of both men, even though I mixed them up in an earlier post. I think I mixed them up as a teenager also?
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation,all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.” ―# Henry Miller#
in 1956, #Arthur Miller# found himself persecuted by the very force that he warned against, when he was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Miller refused to name people he allegedly saw at a Communist writers' meeting a decade before, and he was convicted of contempt. He later won an appeal. Also in 1956, Miller married actress Marilyn Monroe. The two divorced in 1961, one year before her death. That year Monroe appeared in her last film, The Misfits, which is based on an original screenplay by Miller.
So I was wrong about both men as Henry did write erotic literature and was famous for his sexual ttrysts & atheism at his isolated cabin in Big Sur at about the same time period. I was a teenager - innocent and ignorant in the Southeast judging both men harshly & wrongly!
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