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.
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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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 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.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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