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

Arthur Miller

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
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
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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Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
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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Close Commitment Intense Life Man Ourselves Tragedy
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
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
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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Death End Life Serious Theatre Time Weird
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
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
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
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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End Myself See Work
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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Justice Live Simplicity Value
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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Culture Department Difficult Enemy Friendship State
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

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

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