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?
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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.
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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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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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