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 suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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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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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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