I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLERThe 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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