If I see an ending, I can work backward.
ARTHUR MILLERYou specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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