Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLERA suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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 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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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