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.
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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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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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In 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.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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