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.
ARTHUR MILLERWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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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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