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

Arthur Miller

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
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
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
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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Money Profit Seduction Value
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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Goodness Judgement Yourself
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 love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
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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Break Computer Element Moments Right Season
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Kill People Suicide
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
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
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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Catch Children Love Return Run Spirit Stand
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
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Existence Science Talk
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking

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

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