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.
ARTHUR MILLERNever fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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