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.
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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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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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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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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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