The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLERYou specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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 number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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