You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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
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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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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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’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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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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