I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLERA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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 structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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