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.
ARTHUR MILLERIt 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?
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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?
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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