Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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?
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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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