He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
ARTHUR MILLERA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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