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.
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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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