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.
ARTHUR MILLERCan 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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