I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLERThe 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
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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 theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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 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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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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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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