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.
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 love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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