I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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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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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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