I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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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 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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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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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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