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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.

Arthur Miller

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLER

Author Diversity Life Time
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
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Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
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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Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell Yourself
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
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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Age Art Better Focus Necessary Yourself
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
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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Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Money Profit Seduction Value
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
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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Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Judgement Yourself
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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Attention Character Himself Live Paid

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.

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