Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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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 love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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