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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.

Arthur Miller

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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Camera Home Recognition Theatre Work
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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Action Beginning Choice Innocent
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
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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Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
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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Absence Face Humility Question
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
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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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
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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Himself Live Masterpieces World
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
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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Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
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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Catch Children Love Return Run

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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