Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLERHe’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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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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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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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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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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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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