Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLERWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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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.
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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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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
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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 think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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