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.
ARTHUR MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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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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