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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.

Arthur Miller

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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Action Beginning Choice Innocent
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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Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
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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Door Dream Sleep Wake Up Walk Yourself
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Author Diversity Life Time
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
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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Justice Live Simplicity Value
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Goodness Myself Nation Talk
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
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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Age Art Better Focus Necessary Yourself
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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Catch Children Love Return Run Spirit Stand
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself
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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Himself Live Masterpieces World
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
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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Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
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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Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
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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Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell Yourself
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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Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
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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Camera Home Recognition Theatre Work
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Country Live Stay Yourself
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide

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