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.
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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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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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Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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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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