The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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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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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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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