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.
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 suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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 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 playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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