Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLERA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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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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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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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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 theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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