Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLERAll we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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