You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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