Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLERI love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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 theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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 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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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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 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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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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