All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
ARTHUR MILLERWhere choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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’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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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