Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
ARTHUR MILLERDon’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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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