Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLERWhere choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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 suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
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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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