You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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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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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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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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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