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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!

Arthur Miller

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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Action Beginning Choice Innocent
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
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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Catch Children Love Return Run
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
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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Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing 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
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
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.
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Attention Character Himself Live Paid
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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Absence Face Humility Question
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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Camera Home Recognition Theatre Work
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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Author Diversity Life Time
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
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
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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Dare Myself Nation Talk Work
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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Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
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

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