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.
ARTHUR MILLERI think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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