A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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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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