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.
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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