Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLERAll we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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 theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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