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.
ARTHUR MILLERWhat 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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