I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLERWhat 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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