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.
ARTHUR MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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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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