I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
ARTHUR MILLERYou cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
-
-
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLER -
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 MILLER -
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
ARTHUR MILLER -
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.
ARTHUR MILLER -
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER -
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.
ARTHUR MILLER -
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 MILLER -
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
ARTHUR MILLER -
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLER -
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLER -
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
ARTHUR MILLER -
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLER -
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER -
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.
ARTHUR MILLER -
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.
ARTHUR MILLER






