It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
ARTHUR MILLERA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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