Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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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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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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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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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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