I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
ARTHUR MILLERIt 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?
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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