You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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.
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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