The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
ARTHUR MILLERThe closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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 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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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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 structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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