I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
ARTHUR MILLERAll we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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 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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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