Without alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLERMan must shape his tools lest they shape him.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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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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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 love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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