The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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’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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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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