Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLERA 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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 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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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