I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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