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.
ARTHUR MILLER
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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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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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