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.
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 love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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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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