The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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 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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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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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