I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLERA playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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