Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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