A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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.
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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