The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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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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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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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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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What 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.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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