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.
ARTHUR MILLERCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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 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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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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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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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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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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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