I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLERCertainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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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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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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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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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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