The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
ARTHUR MILLERAll we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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