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.
ARTHUR MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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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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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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 love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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 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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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