The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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 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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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