Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLERThe theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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