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Article: Arthur Miller, warts and all
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- Jerusalem Post
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- February 17, 2005
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Larry Derfner
Jerusalem Post
02-17-2005
Headline: Arthur Miller, warts and all
Byline: Larry Derfner
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 15
Thursday, February 17, 2005 -- They say you shouldn't confuse the artist with the art - meaning you shouldn't expect the personal life of a great poet, for instance, to be as pure, humane and inspiring as his poems. If you do, you're likely to be deeply disappointed. Great artists are necessarily self-absorbed and single-minded in the extreme, and those traits are liable to crowd out the simple sensitivity and considerateness you need not to be a great man, but just to be a good guy.
Arthur Miller, who died a week ago, was one of the three or four heroes ...