You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
ARTHUR MILLERWell, 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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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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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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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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