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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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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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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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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