You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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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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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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