Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
ARTHUR MILLERHe 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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 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 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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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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