A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLERIn 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
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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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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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