All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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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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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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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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