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.
ARTHUR MILLERBetrayal is the only truth that sticks.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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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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