The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLERYou specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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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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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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