A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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