Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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 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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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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