Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLERYou specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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 cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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