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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

I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLER

Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLER

Alien Politics
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
ARTHUR MILLER

End Myself See Work
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLER

Accident Fascination Life Theatre
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Myself Nation Talk
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
ARTHUR MILLER

Herself Love Match Myself
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Judgement Yourself
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Himself Live Masterpieces World
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
ARTHUR MILLER

Action Beginning Choice Innocent
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?
ARTHUR MILLER

Age Art Better Focus Necessary Yourself
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
ARTHUR MILLER

Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLER

Author Diversity Life Time
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER

Himself Shape Tools
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLER

End Hope Oneself Regrets Right

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