I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLERThe theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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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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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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