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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 Miller

Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Betrayal One Liner Stick Truth
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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Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
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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Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Home Play Story Structure
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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Justice Live Simplicity Value
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.
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Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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Country Live Stay Yourself
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
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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Country Innocent Place See

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.

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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.

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