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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.

Arthur Miller

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER

Himself Shape Tools
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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Action Beginning Choice Innocent
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
ARTHUR MILLER

Finding Passion Specialization Work Yourself
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLER

Fight Jungle Stranger Way Yourself
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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Accident Fascination Life Theatre
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
ARTHUR MILLER

Herself Love Match Myself
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Beginning Challenge Knowledge Strength Tree
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Cost Episode Experience Feeling Problem Realization
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Justice Live Simplicity Value
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Judgement Yourself
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
ARTHUR MILLER

Country Live Stay Yourself
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Attention Character Himself Live Paid
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.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run Spirit Stand
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
ARTHUR MILLER

End Myself See Work
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLER

Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking

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