The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
ARTHUR MILLERI think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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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.
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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.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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.
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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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