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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Arthur Miller

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Author Diversity Life Time
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Money Profit Seduction Value
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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Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell Yourself
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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Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy
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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Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLER

Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
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
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
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
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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Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
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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Justice Live Simplicity Value
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
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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Himself Live Masterpieces World
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
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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End Hope Oneself Regrets Right
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

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