Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
ARTHUR MILLERA 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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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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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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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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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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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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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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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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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 structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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