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.
ARTHUR MILLERLet you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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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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Well, 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.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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