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.
ARTHUR MILLERCertainly 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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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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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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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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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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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