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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Arthur Miller

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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Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
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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Country Innocent Place See
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
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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Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
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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Absence Face Humility Question
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
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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Camera Home Recognition Theatre Work
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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Action Beginning Choice Innocent
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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Door Dream Sleep Wake Up Walk Yourself
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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Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
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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Catch Children Love Return Run Spirit Stand
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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Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

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