The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility." - Meaning and context.">
National Observer (January 20, 1964)

The job is to ask questions — it always was — and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

— Arthur Miller

What It Means

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Arthur Miller

About Arthur Miller

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.