I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
ARTHUR MILLERI know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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