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.
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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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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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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