The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLERAll we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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 see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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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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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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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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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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